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Vladislav Yaroshchuk 81ad2964e9 net/vmnet: add vmnet backends to qapi/net
Create separate netdevs for each vmnet operating mode:
- vmnet-host
- vmnet-shared
- vmnet-bridged

Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yaroshchuk <Vladislav.Yaroshchuk@jetbrains.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2022-05-17 16:48:23 +08:00
Victor Toso 9a9d101c5b qapi: fix example of netdev_add command
Example output has the optional member @dnssearch as string type. It
should be an array of String objects instead. Fix it.

For reference, see NetdevUserOptions.

Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220401110712.26911-1-victortoso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked for precision]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2022-04-05 12:30:45 +02:00
Victor Toso 121c25b077 qapi: fix example of FAILOVER_NEGOTIATED event
Example output lacks mandatory member @timestamp.  Provide it.

Event's documentation is not properly formatted. Fix it by:
- Adding @ to "device-id"
- Adding extra line for "Since" section

Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220328140604.41484-9-victortoso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2022-03-31 12:34:52 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini 48f596c5a7 netdev: add more commands to preconfig mode
Creating and destroying network backend does not require a fully
constructed machine.  Allow the related monitor commands to run before
machine initialization has concluded.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2021-06-11 10:30:13 +08:00
Jason Wang f9bb0c1f98 Revert "qapi: net: Add query-netdev command"
Several issues has been reported for query-netdev series. Consider
it's late in the rc, this reverts commit
d32ad10a14.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2021-04-08 17:33:59 +08:00
Kevin Wolf 1156a67531 qapi/qom: Add ObjectOptions for filter-*
This adds a QAPI schema for the properties of the filter-* objects.

Some parts of the interface (in particular NetfilterProperties.position)
are very unusual for QAPI, but for now just describe the existing
interface.

net.json can't be included in qom.json because the storage daemon
doesn't have it. NetFilterDirection is still required in the new object
property definitions in qom.json, so move this enum to common.json.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2021-03-19 10:17:13 +01:00
Alexey Kirillov d32ad10a14 qapi: net: Add query-netdev command
The query-netdev command is used to get the configuration of the current
network device backends (netdevs).
This is the QMP analog of the HMP command "info network" but only for
netdevs (i.e. excluding NIC and hubports).

The query-netdev command returns an array of objects of the NetdevInfo
type, which are an extension of Netdev type. It means that response can
be used for netdev-add after small modification. This can be useful for
recreate the same netdev configuration.

Information about the network device is filled in when it is created or
modified and is available through the NetClientState->stored_config.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kirillov <lekiravi@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2021-03-15 16:41:22 +08:00
Markus Armbruster 9bc6e893b7 qapi: Normalize version references x.y.0 to just x.y
We use x.y most of the time, and x.y.0 sometimes.  Normalize for
consistency.

Reported-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201118064158.3359056-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2020-12-10 17:16:44 +01:00
Peter Maydell b2f1c13c31 qapi: Fix indentation, again
In commit 26ec4e53f2 and similar commits we fixed the indentation
for doc comments in our qapi json files to follow a new stricter
standard for indentation, which permits only:
    @arg: description line 1
          description line 2

or:
    @arg:
    line 1
    line 2

Unfortunately since we didn't manage to get the script changes that
enforced the new style in, a variety of commits (eg df4097aeaf,
2e44570321) introduced new doc text which doesn't follow the new
stricter rules for indentation on multi-line doc comments.  Bring
those into line with the new rules.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200810195019.25427-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-09-07 17:13:19 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani f7160f3218 schemas: Add vim modeline
The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.

As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
in, well, pretty much everything.

Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.

This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200729185024.121766-1-abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-08-03 08:28:08 +02:00
Cindy Lu 1e0a84ea49 vhost-vdpa: introduce vhost-vdpa net client
This patch set introduces a new net client type: vhost-vdpa.
vhost-vdpa net client will set up a vDPA device which is specified
by a "vhostdev" parameter.

Signed-off-by: Lingshan Zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200701145538.22333-15-lulu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2020-07-07 07:59:51 -04:00
Thomas Huth 71830d8430 net: Drop the NetLegacy structure, always use Netdev instead
Now that the "name" parameter is gone, there is hardly any difference
between NetLegacy and Netdev anymore, so we can drop NetLegacy and always
use Netdev to simplify the code quite a bit.

The only two differences that were really left between Netdev and NetLegacy:

1) NetLegacy does not allow a "hubport" type. We can continue to block
   this with a simple check in net_client_init1() for this type.

2) The "id" parameter was optional in NetLegacy (and an internal id
   was chosen via assign_name() during initialization), but it is mandatory
   for Netdev. To avoid that the visitor code bails out here, we have to
   add an internal id to the QemuOpts already earlier now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2020-06-18 21:05:52 +08:00
Thomas Huth 9d903f30cb net: Drop the legacy "name" parameter from the -net option
It's been deprecated since QEMU v3.1, so it's time to finally
remove it. The "id" parameter can simply be used instead.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2020-06-18 21:05:52 +08:00
Eric Blake db2a380c84 net: Complete qapi-fication of netdev_add
We've had all the required pieces for doing a type-safe representation
of netdev_add as a flat union for quite some time now (since
0e55c381f6 in v2.7.0, released in 2016), but did not make the final
switch to using it because of concern about whether a command-line
regression in accepting "1" in place of 1 for integer arguments would
be problematic.  Back then, we did not have the deprecation cycle to
allow us to make progress.  But now that we have waited so long, other
problems have crept in: for example, our desire to add
qemu-storage-daemon is hampered by the inability to express net
objects, and we are unable to introspect what we actually accept.
Additionally, our round-trip through QemuOpts silently eats any
argument that expands to an array, rendering dnssearch, hostfwd, and
guestfwd useless through QMP:

{"execute": "netdev_add", "arguments": { "id": "netdev0",
  "type": "user", "dnssearch": [
    { "str": "8.8.8.8" }, { "str": "8.8.4.4" }
  ]}}

So without further ado, let's turn on proper QAPI.  netdev_add() was a
trivial wrapper around net_client_init(), which did a few steps prior
to calling net_client_init1(); with this patch, we now skip directly
to net_client_init1().  In addition to fixing array parameters, the
following additional differences occur:

-  {"execute": "netdev_add", "arguments": {"type": "help"}}
no longer attempts to print help to stdout and exit.  Bug fix, broken
in 547203ead4 'net: List available netdevs with "-netdev help"',
v2.12.0.

-  {"execute": "netdev_add", "arguments': {... "ipv6-net": "..." }}
no longer attempts to desugar the undocumented ipv6-net magic string
into the proper "ipv6-prefix" and "ipv6-prefixlen".  Undocumented
misfeature, introduced in commit 7aac531ef2 "qapi-schema, qemu-options
& slirp: Adding Qemu options for IPv6 addresses", v2.6.0.

-  {'execute':'netdev_add',
     'arguments':{'id':'net2', 'type':'hubport', 'hubid':"2"}}
   {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'hubid', expected: integer"}}
Used to succeed: since our command line treats everything as strings,
our not-so-round-trip conversion from QAPI -> QemuOpts -> QAPI lost
the original typing and turned everything into a string; now that we
skip the QemuOpts, the JSON input has to match the exact QAPI type.
But this stricter QMP is desirable, and introspection is sufficient
for any affected applications to make sure they use it correctly.

In qmp_netdev_add(), we still have to create a QemuOpts object so that
qmp_netdev_del() will be able to remove a hotplugged network device;
but the opts->head remains empty since we now manage all parsing
through the QAPI object rather than QemuOpts; a separate patch will
address the abuse of QemuOpts as a witness for whether a
NetClientState is a netdev.  In the meantime, our argument that we are
okay requires auditing all uses of option group "netdev":

- qemu_netdev_opts: option group definition, empty .desc[]
- CLI (CLI netdev parsing ends before monitors start, so while
  monitors can mess with CLI netdevs, CLI cannot mess with
  monitor netdevs):
  - main() case QEMU_OPTION_netdev: store CLI definition
  - main() case QEMU_OPTION_readconfig, case QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig:
  similar, dealing only with CLI
  - net_init_clients(): Pass CLI to net_client_init()
- Monitor:
  - hmp_netdev_add(): straightforward parse into net_client_init()
  - qmp_netdev_add(): subject of this patch, used to add full
  object to option group, now just adds bare-bones id
  - qmp_netdev_del(), netdev_del_completion(): check the option group
  solely for id, as a 'is this a netdev' predicate

Reported-by: Alex Kirillov <lekiravi@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200317201711.322764-2-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message typo fixed]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 21:50:14 +01:00
Peter Maydell bb5ccf225e qapi: Delete all the "foo: dropped in n.n" notes
A handful of QAPI doc comments include lines like
"ppcemb: dropped in 3.1". The doc comment parser will just
put these into whatever the preceding section was; sometimes
that's "Notes", and sometimes it's some random other section,
as with "NetClientDriver" where the "'dump': dropped in 2.12"
line ends up in the "Since:" section.

This tends to render wrongly, more so in the upcoming rST
generator, but sometimes even in the Texinfo, as in the case
of QKeyCode:
   ac_bookmarks
       since 2.10 altgr, altgr_r: dropped in 2.10

Since commit 3264ffced3 (v4.2.0), we have a better place to tell
users about deprecated and deleted functionality --
qemu-deprecated.texi.  These "dropped in" remarks all predate it, and
other feature drops of that vintage are not documented anywhere, so
moving these to qemu-deprecated.texi makes little sense.  Drop them
instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200213175647.17628-19-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-02-15 11:41:50 +01:00
Peter Maydell 26ec4e53f2 qapi: Fix indent level on doc comments in json files
The current doc generation doesn't care much about indentation levels,
but we would like to switch to an rST format, and rST does care about
indentation.

Make the doc comments more strongly consistent about indentation
for multiline constructs like:

@arg: description line 1
      description line 2

Returns: line one
         line 2

so that there is always exactly one space after the colon, and
subsequent lines align with the first.

This commit is a purely whitespace change, and it does not alter the
generated .texi files (because the texi generation code strips away
all the extra whitespace).  This does mean that we end up with some
over-length lines.

Note that when the documentation for an argument fits on a single
line like this:

@arg: one line only

then stray extra spaces after the ':' don't affect the rST output, so
I have not attempted to methodically fix them, though the preference
is a single space here too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200213175647.17628-10-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-02-15 11:41:50 +01:00
Jens Freimann 70d04971f1 qapi: add failover negotiated event
This event is sent to let libvirt know that VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature
is enabled. The primary device this virtio-net (standby) device is
associated with, is now hotplugged by the virtio-net device.

Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191029114905.6856-7-jfreimann@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2019-10-29 18:55:26 -04:00
Markus Armbruster bf83f04e13 qapi: Fix doc comment checking for commands and events
When a command's 'data' is an object, its doc comment describes the
arguments defined there.  When 'data' names a type, the doc comment
does not describe arguments.  Instead, the doc generator inserts a
pointer to the named type.

An event's doc comment works the same.

We don't actually check doc comments for commands and events.
Instead, QAPISchema._def_command() forwards the doc comment to the
implicit argument type, where it gets checked.  Works because the
check only cares for the implicit argument type's members.

Not only is this needlessly hard to understand, it actually falls
apart in two cases:

* When 'data' is empty, there is nothing to forward to, and the doc
  comment remains unchecked.  Demonstrated by test doc-bad-event-arg.

* When 'data' names a type, we can't forward, as the type has its own
  doc comment.  The command or event's doc comment remains unchecked.
  Demonstrated by test doc-bad-boxed-command-arg.

The forwarding goes back to commit 069fb5b250 "qapi: Prepare for
requiring more complete documentation", put to use in commit
816a57cd6e "qapi: Fix detection of bogus member documentation".  That
fix was incomplete.

To fix this, make QAPISchemaCommand and QAPISchemaEvent check doc
comments, and drop the forwarding of doc comments to implicit argument
types.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191024110237.30963-12-armbru@redhat.com>
2019-10-29 07:35:16 +01:00
Dr. David Alan Gilbert 944458b659 net/announce: Add optional ID
Previously there was a single instance of the timer used by
monitor triggered announces, that's OK, but when combined with the
previous change that lets you have announces for subsets of interfaces
it's a bit restrictive if you want to do different things to different
interfaces.

Add an 'id' field to the announce, and maintain a list of the
timers based on id.

This allows you to for example:
    a) Start an announce going on interface eth0 for a long time
    b) Start an announce going on interface eth1 for a long time
    c) Kill the announce on eth0 while leaving eth1 going.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2019-07-02 10:21:06 +08:00
Dr. David Alan Gilbert ef2fdbfb4d net/announce: Allow optional list of interfaces
Allow the caller to restrict the set of interfaces that announces are
sent on.  The default is still to send on all interfaces.

e.g.

  { "execute": "announce-self", "arguments": { "initial": 50, "max": 550, "rounds": 5, "step": 50, "interfaces": ["vn2", "vn1"] } }

This doesn't affect the behaviour of migraiton announcments.

Note: There's still only one timer for the qmp command, so that
performing an 'announce-self' on one list of interfaces followed
by another 'announce-self' on another list will stop the announces
on the existing set.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2019-07-02 10:21:06 +08:00
Dr. David Alan Gilbert a06cd488d8 qmp: Add announce-self command
Add a qmp command that can trigger guest announcements.

It uses its own announce-timer instance, and parameters
passed to it explicitly in the command.

Like most qmp commands, it's in the main thread/bql, so
there's no racing with any outstanding timer.

Based on work of Germano Veit Michel <germano@redhat.com> and
                 Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2019-03-05 11:27:41 +08:00
Dr. David Alan Gilbert 50510ea2c2 net: Introduce announce timer
The 'announce timer' will be used by migration, and explicit
requests for qemu to perform network announces.

Based on the work by Germano Veit Michel <germano@redhat.com>
 and Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2019-03-05 11:27:41 +08:00
Marc-André Lureau b0ddeba22a qapi: break long lines at 'data' member
Let's break the line before 'data'. While at it, improve a bit
indentation/spacing. (I removed some alignment which are not helping
much readability and become quickly inconsistent)

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181208111606.8505-26-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2018-12-13 19:20:11 +01:00
Fam Zheng 0fca92b907 slirp: Implement RFC2132 TFTP server name
This new usernet option can be used to add data for option 66 (tftp
server name) in the BOOTP reply, which is useful in PXE based automatic
OS install such as OpenBSD.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
2018-10-21 21:24:55 +02:00
Anton Nefedov 29cd0403f1 qapi: remove empty flat union branches and types
Flat unions may now have uncovered branches, so it is possible to get rid
of empty types defined for that purpose only.

Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1529311206-76847-3-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2018-06-22 16:33:46 +02:00
Samuel Thibault 3835c310bd slirp: fix domainname version availability
The change missed the 2.12 deadline.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2018-06-08 09:08:30 +03:00
Benjamin Drung f18d137542 slirp: Add domainname option to slirp's DHCP server
This patch will allow the user to include the domainname option in
replies from the built-in DHCP server.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
2018-05-31 21:19:08 +02:00
Peter Maydell 51f63ec7da qapi: Change "since 2.13" annotations to "since 3.0"
We're going to make the next release be 3.0, not 2.13; change
the annotations in our json appropriately.

Changes produced with
  sed -i -e 's/2\.13/3.0/g' qapi/*.json

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180522104000.9044-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2018-05-29 11:28:46 +01:00
Thomas Huth 4088b55364 qapi/net.json: Fix the version number of the "vlan" removal
"vlan" will be dropped in 2.13, not in 2.12. And while we're at it,
use the better wording "dropped in" instead of "removed with" (also
for the "dump" removal).

Reported-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2018-05-20 08:57:56 +03:00
Thomas Huth af1a5c3eb4 net: Remove the deprecated "vlan" parameter
It's been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.9.0, so that should have
been enough time for everybody to either just drop unnecessary "vlan=0"
parameters, to switch to the modern -device + -netdev syntax for connecting
guest NICs with host network backends, or to switch to the "hubport" netdev
in case hubs are really wanted instead.

Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/658904
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-05-14 15:47:14 +08:00
Thomas Huth 857d20873d net: Remove the deprecated way of dumping network packets
"-net dump" has been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.10, since it
only works with the deprecated 'vlan' parameter (or hubs). Network
dumping should be done with "-object filter-dump" nowadays instead.
Since nobody complained so far about the deprecation message, let's
finally get rid of "-net dump" now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-03-05 10:30:15 +08:00
Thomas Huth 18d65d2258 net: Allow hubports to connect to other netdevs
QEMU can emulate hubs to connect NICs and netdevs. This is currently
primarily used for the mis-named 'vlan' feature of the networking
subsystem. Now the 'vlan' feature has been marked as deprecated, since
its name is rather confusing and the users often rather mis-configure
their network when trying to use it. But while the 'vlan' parameter
should be removed at one point in time, the basic idea of emulating
a hub in QEMU is still good: It's useful for bundling up the output of
multiple NICs into one single l2tp netdev for example.

Now to be able to use the hubport feature without 'vlan's, there is one
missing piece: The possibility to connect a hubport to a netdev, too.
This patch adds this possibility by introducing a new "netdev=..."
parameter to the hubports.

To bundle up the output of multiple NICs into one socket netdev, you can
now run QEMU with these parameters for example:

qemu-system-ppc64 ... -netdev socket,id=s1,connect=:11122 \
    -netdev hubport,hubid=1,id=h1,netdev=s1 \
    -netdev hubport,hubid=1,id=h2 -device e1000,netdev=h2 \
    -netdev hubport,hubid=1,id=h3 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=h3

For using the socket netdev, you have got to start another QEMU as the
receiving side first, for example with network dumping enabled:

qemu-system-x86_64 -M isapc -netdev socket,id=s0,listen=:11122 \
    -device ne2k_isa,netdev=s0 \
    -object filter-dump,id=f1,netdev=s0,file=/tmp/dump.dat

After the ppc64 guest tried to boot from both NICs, you can see in the
dump file (using Wireshark, for example), that the output of both NICs
(the e1000 and the virtio-net-pci) has been successfully transfered
via the socket netdev in this case.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-01-29 16:05:37 +08:00
Markus Armbruster 3c0bd37dac qapi-schema: Collect net device stuff in qapi/net.json
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1503602048-12268-8-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2017-09-04 13:09:12 +02:00