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Re: qemu-xen and bridge (xen 4.11)



On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:24:06AM -0700, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:12 AM Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > with the recent XSA about qemu, I'm trying to switch the NetBSD port from
> > qemu-xen-traditional to qemu-xen (in Xen 4.11 for now, I'll look at
> > 4.13 later).
> > One showstopper is that with qemu-xen, the bridge name is not passed
> > any more to the qemu-ifup script. I tried adding a br= option to
> > the qemu invocation, but qemu-system-i386 doesn't seem to use it
> > (at last the script is still called with only one argument).
> > I'm not about to pass to qemu the value of nics[i].script instead of
> > libxl_tapif_script(), so that at last per-domain script can be
> > specified.
> >
> > How is this issue dealt with on other OSes ? I can't believe I'm
> > the only one with multiple bridges in the dom0 ...
> 
> You mean something like?
>    
> https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/blob/master/pkg/xen-tools/patches-4.14.0/10-bridge-helper-support.patch

yes, that is going to help. I'll see if I can backport it to 4.11

thanks !

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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