Re: [Xen-devel] [libvirt] Setting devid for emulated NICs (Xen 4.3.1 / libvirt 1.2.0) using libxl driver

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:39 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Stefan Bader wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Oh, just while talking about setdefault. Jim, this is one of the odd 
>>>> things when
>>>> moving from xm to xl stack from libvirt: libvirt defaults to the netfront 
>>>> NIC
>>>> when no model is specified and sets the type. The libxl setdefault 
>>>> function sets
>>>> the model to rtl8139 but leaves the type untouched.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> The xend toolstack always creates both emulated and vif devices unless
>>> 'type=netfront' is explicitly specified.  As you say, the guest gets to
>>> choose what to do with them.  E.g. PXE boot using the emulated device,
>>> or have the driver for the PV device unplug the emulated one.  I don't
>>> think libxl supports this right?
>>>     
>>>       
>> On my 4.3.1 setup, I changed the above to
>>     

Updated the system to Xen 4.4 rc1 meanwhile...

>>
>>
>>   if (hvm) {
>>
>>   x_nic->nictype = LIBXL_NIC_TYPE_VIF_IOEMU;
>>
>>       if (l_nic->model) {
>>
>>           if (VIR_STRDUP(x_nic->model, l_nic->model) < 0)
>>
>>       return -1;
>>
>>           if (STREQ(l_nic->model, "netfront"))
>>
>>               x_nic->nictype = LIBXL_NIC_TYPE_VIF;
>>
>>       }
>>
>>   } else {
>>
>>       x_nic->nictype = LIBXL_NIC_TYPE_VIF;
>>
>>   }
>>
>>
>>
>> which is better initialization logic IMO.  If the domain is hvm, set
>> nictype to LIBXL_NIC_TYPE_VIF_IOEMU, unless model 'netfront' is
>> specified.  This behavior is consistent with the legacy xen driver. 
>> The change seems to work fine and resolves the PXE issue Stefan noted -
>>     

I've submitted a patch for the PXE issue to the libvirt list

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-January/msg00208.html

>> as long as I initialize devid in libvirt.  So we'll need the above fix
>> in libvirt, as well as a resolution to the nic devid initialization in
>> libxl that started this thread.
>>     

Stefan, any progress on the devid initialization?

Regards,
Jim

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