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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libs/light: pass some infos to qemu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:06:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210127090140.qaqkvtbdkkasdd55@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210126224223.GA3740@antioche.eu.org>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:42:23PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:36:42AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > Note also that there are networking modes that don't use a bridge, so
> > you could likely end up with nics[i].bridge == NULL?
> 
> I couldn't cause this to happen. If no bridge is specified in the
> domU's config file, qemu-ifup is called with xenbr0 as bridge name.
> 
> I tried this:
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:10:54, gatewaydev=wm0 type=ioemu, model=e1000' ]

Right, that's because libxl__device_nic_setdefault will set the bridge
field to xenbr0 if empty.

I'm not opposed to this behavior, seeing as we don't have much other
option I'm afraid. I guess we could open the tap interface in libxl
and pass it to QEMU, so that libxl can call the hotplug script knowing
the tap interface name, but that seems non-trivial.

IMO if we go that route it needs to be documented that NetBSD only
supports bridged mode for emulated HVM network interfaces for the time
being.

Thanks, Roger.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 18:12 [PATCH] Fix error: array subscript has type 'char' Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD: Fix lock directory path Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 15:09   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-15 15:13     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 15:30       ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD hotplug: Introduce locking functions Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-27 15:57   ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-27 19:29     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-28 14:05       ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD hotplug: fix block unconfigure on destroy Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 15:27   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-26 16:47     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-27  9:40       ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-27  9:47         ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD hotplug: handle case where vifname is not present Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 16:06   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-26 16:49     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD: remove xenbackendd Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 15:31   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-18 18:31     ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-18 18:41       ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] NetBSD: use system-provided headers Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 16:01   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] gdbsx: use right path for privcmd Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:03   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-18 18:45     ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-18 19:05       ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/call: fix build on NetBSD Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:00   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/evtchn: " Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:01   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/foreignmemory: Implement " Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 17:49   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/gnttab: implement " Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 17:54   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-26 17:05     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-27  9:31       ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/light: Switch NetBSD to QEMU_XEN Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 17:28   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/light: fix tv_sec printf format Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:19   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/light: fix uuid on NetBSD Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 17:27   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/light: make it build without setresuid() Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:16   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-20 14:52     ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-20 15:13       ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-20 15:32         ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-20 16:56           ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-20 17:10             ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-20 17:20               ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-20 17:29                 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-27 16:03                   ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-27 19:34                     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-28 11:39                       ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-30 11:57                         ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/light: pass some infos to qemu Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-16 10:16   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-16 11:25     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18  8:36       ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-18  8:52         ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18  9:07           ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-18  9:24             ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-26 22:42         ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-27  9:06           ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2021-01-27  9:49             ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] libs/store: make build without PTHREAD_STACK_MIN Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:18   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-18 18:56   ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-18 19:05     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] ocaml/libs/eventchn: drop unneeded evtchn.h Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-13  9:22   ` Christian Lindig
2021-01-13  9:40     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] xenpaging.c: include errno.h Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-15 16:08   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] xenpmd.c: use dynamic allocation Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-27 15:57   ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-12 18:12 ` [PATCH] xenstat_netbsd: remove usused code Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-18 18:06   ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-01-14 10:53 ` [PATCH] Fix error: array subscript has type 'char' Jan Beulich
2021-01-14 12:29   ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-14 13:25     ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-14 14:16       ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-26 17:44         ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-26 17:59           ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-27  8:31             ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27  8:37               ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 13:53                 ` [PATCH] Fix error: array subscript has type 'char' [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2021-01-27 14:33                   ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 16:21                     ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-27 16:32                       ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 16:52                         ` George Dunlap
2021-01-27 17:00                           ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 17:00                           ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-18 19:08 ` NetBSD patches Andrew Cooper
2021-01-18 19:11   ` Manuel Bouyer

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