On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:06:21PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote: > > > > > > On 02/01/2017 12:41 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > > > It depends where / how in OVS it needs to be set. The only stuff libvirt > > > does with OVS is to run 'add-port' and 'del-port' commands via the ovs > > > cli tool. We pass through arguments from the port profile stored in the > > > XML config. > > > > > > <interface type='bridge'> > > > <source bridge='ovsbr'/> > > > <virtualport type='openvswitch'> > > > <parameters profileid='menial' interfaceid='09b11c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d84eaa0aaa4f'/> > > > </virtualport> > > > </interface> > > > > > > eg those things in <parameters/> get passed as cli args to the 'add-port' > > > command. Soo if add-port needs this new version string, then we'd need > > > to add the version to the openvswitch virtualport XML. > > > > > > If the version is provided to OVS in a different command, then it would > > > probably be outside scope of libvirt. > > > > I think it would make sense to be a parameter of the add-port command. > > But it would be for vhost-user related add-port command, I didn't find > > where/if this is managed in libvirt XML. > > For vhost-user, libvirt does not have any interaction with OVS at > all. If the thing that's using the vhost-user UNIX socket, in turn > connects to OVS, that's outside scope of libvirt. IOW, for vhost-user > OVS it seems like that job is for Nova / os-vif to solve. > > Regards, > Daniel I don't think they currently understand the issues involved in cross-version migration though. This is a complex subject and easy to get wrong. It would be significantly better to figure it out at libvirt level since it already deals with cross-version migration issues. > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
