On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:36PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > In order to hotplug a network/bridge backed NIC, we need to first create > the tap file descriptor, add the tap interface to the bridge and then > pass the file descriptor to the qemu process using the 'getfd' monitor > command. > > Once the tapfd has been accepted, we create the network backend using > host_net_add, supplying the name assigned to the tapfd. If this fails, > we need to close the tapfd in qemu using the 'closefd' monitor command. > > * src/qemu_driver.c: add support for tapfd based hotplug in > qemudDomainAttachNetDevice() [...] > + if (tapfd != -1) { > + if (virAsprintf(&tapfd_name, "fd-%s", net->hostnet_name) < 0) > + goto no_memory; > + > + if (virAsprintf(&tapfd_close, "closefd %s", tapfd_name) < 0) > + goto no_memory; [...] > > +try_tapfd_close: > + VIR_FREE(reply); > + > + if (tapfd_close) { > + if (qemudMonitorCommand(vm, tapfd_close, &reply) < 0) > + VIR_WARN(_("Failed to close tapfd with '%s'\n"), tapfd_close); > + else > + VIR_DEBUG("%s: closefd: %s\n", vm->def->name, reply); > + } > + goto cleanup; This makes sense except I didn't expect tapfd_close which seems used only in an error path to be allocated on the main branch (assuming a tapfd). Otherwise looks clean, ACK Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list