The netdev reports NETDEV_STREAM_CONNECTED event when the backend
is connected, and NETDEV_STREAM_DISCONNECTED when it is disconnected.
The NETDEV_STREAM_CONNECTED event includes the destination address.
This allows a system manager like libvirt to detect when the server
fails.
For instance with passt:
{ 'execute': 'qmp_capabilities' }
{ "return": { } }
{ "timestamp": { "seconds": 1666341395, "microseconds": 505347 },
"event": "NETDEV_STREAM_CONNECTED",
"data": { "netdev-id": "netdev0",
"addr": { "path": "/tmp/passt_1.socket", "type": "unix" } } }
[killing passt here]
{ "timestamp": { "seconds": 1666341430, "microseconds": 968694 },
"event": "NETDEV_STREAM_DISCONNECTED",
"data": { "netdev-id": "netdev0" } }
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (QAPI schema)
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> (QAPI schema)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Copied from socket netdev file and modified to use SocketAddress
to be able to introduce new features like unix socket.
"udp" and "mcast" are squashed into dgram netdev, multicast is detected
according to the IP address type.
"listen" and "connect" modes are managed by stream netdev. An optional
parameter "server" defines the mode (off by default)
The two new types need to be parsed the modern way with -netdev, because
with the traditional way, the "type" field of netdev structure collides with
the "type" field of SocketAddress and prevents the correct evaluation of the
command line option. Moreover the traditional way doesn't allow to use
the same type (SocketAddress) several times with the -netdev option
(needed to specify "local" and "remote" addresses).
The previous commit paved the way for parsing the modern way, but
omitted one detail: how to pick modern vs. traditional, in
netdev_is_modern().
We want to pick based on the value of parameter "type". But how to
extract it from the option argument?
Parsing the option argument, either the modern or the traditional way,
extracts it for us, but only if parsing succeeds.
If parsing fails, there is no good option. No matter which parser we
pick, it'll be the wrong one for some arguments, and the error
reporting will be confusing.
Fortunately, the traditional parser accepts *anything* when called in
a certain way. This maximizes our chance to extract the value of
"type", and in turn minimizes the risk of confusing error reporting.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Similar to other vhost backends, vhostfd can be passed to vhost-vdpa
backend as another parameter to instantiate vhost-vdpa net client.
This would benefit the use case where only open file descriptors, as
opposed to raw vhost-vdpa device paths, are accessible from the QEMU
process.
(qemu) netdev_add type=vhost-vdpa,vhostfd=61,id=vhost-vdpa1
Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Example output has an extra ending curly bracket. Fix it.
Problem was noticed when trying to load the example into python's json
library.
Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220901085840.22520-6-victortoso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Finally offering the possibility to enable SVQ from the command line.
Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Inspired by Julia Lawall's fixing of Linux
kernel comments, I looked at qemu, although I did it manually.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
Message-Id: <20220614104045.85728-2-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
"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>
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>
"-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>
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>
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>
