[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Add support for Macvtap and Linux Bridge

[Aline Manera]

On 15/10/2015 11:36, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
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> On 10/15/2015 10:15 AM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
>> Kimchi today creates network pool using macvtap. Now, we want the 
>> user to choose if it want Linux Bridge or macvtap.
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>> If you want to understand the pros and cons of this features, we can 
>> see here: 
>> https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/wiki/Create-guest-network
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>> Proposal:
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>> Add "mode" option when creating a network pool.
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>> If macvtap is choosed, keep the actual procedure.
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>> If bridge is choosed, create linux bridge using net commands(brctl) 
>> and create network pool pointing to the new bridge.
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>> Create tests for this.
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> I approve this proposal, but perhaps we can rely on Ginger to do the 
> linux bridge? I am worried about having both kimchi and ginger messing 
> with the network interfaces.
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I understand your concern, Daniel! But (I hope) it will be the single 
feature in which Kimchi needs to change the host configuration.

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