Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2014-01-23 Thread William Dauchy
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Alexandre Kandalintsev s...@messir.net wrote: I was worried that the amount of changes would turn the maintainers away from the patch. Another problem is that I think there is little demand for this patch. But let's try to push it once again. Give me a week

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2014-01-20 Thread Alexandre Kandalintsev
Hi William, I was worried that the amount of changes would turn the maintainers away from the patch. Another problem is that I think there is little demand for this patch. But let's try to push it once again. Give me a week or two and I'll submit a new version. -- best regards, Alexandre Hi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2014-01-14 Thread William Dauchy
Hi Alexandre, On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Alexandre Kandalintsev s...@messir.net wrote: Ok, lets go this way. We will define patterns in bridge.conf like ~~~ allowifname vm* ~~~ Do you have any news about this patch? Regards, -- William

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2013-03-25 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Alexandre Kandalintsev wrote: Hi! Here is the patch that allows us to specify the name of tap interface when -netdev bridge is used. It's like -netdev tap,ifname=xxx, but for bridges. ** Motivation ** We've got zillions of VMs and would

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2013-03-25 Thread Alexandre Kandalintsev
By default, custom names should not be allowed. Perhaps the qemu-bridge-helper configuration file needs an option to specify a glob pattern, e.g. vm*. This way the host system administrator can restrict network interface names while still allowing humand-friendly names. Ok, lets go this

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2013-03-21 Thread Alexandre Kandalintsev
Hi! Here is the patch that allows us to specify the name of tap interface when -netdev bridge is used. It's like -netdev tap,ifname=xxx, but for bridges. ** Motivation ** We've got zillions of VMs and would like to see meaningful names of tap interfaces. This is really useful for for, e.g.,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/21/2013 12:05 PM, Alexandre Kandalintsev wrote: Hi! Here is the patch that allows us to specify the name of tap interface when -netdev bridge is used. It's like -netdev tap,ifname=xxx, but for bridges. +++ b/qapi-schema.json @@ -2676,6 +2676,7 @@ { 'type':