On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:36PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > @@ -4637,10 +4639,16 @@ static int qemudDomainAttachNetDevice(virConnectPtr conn, > > if (net->type == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_BRIDGE || > net->type == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_NETWORK) { > - qemudReportError(conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT, > - _("network device type '%s' cannot be attached"), > - virDomainNetTypeToString(net->type)); > - return -1; > + if (vm->monitor_chr->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_UNIX) { > + qemudReportError(conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT, > + _("network device type '%s' cannot be attached: " > + "qemu is not using a unix socket monitor"), > + virDomainNetTypeToString(net->type)); > + return -1; > + } > + > + if ((tapfd = qemudNetworkIfaceConnect(conn, driver, net, qemuCmdFlags)) < 0) > + return -1; > } Obviously this code is supporting upgrades frm 0.6.5 -> 0.7.0 where libvirtd restarts with VMs already running using a PTY. We should decide on how many versions we wish to support upgrades with live VMs for. ie, delete all this PTY compatability code in something like the 0.8.0 release ? It is also probably worth formalizing how long we wish to support a particular hypervisor release series for. ie how long do we wish to support Xen 3.0.3 for (for benefit of RHEL-5) before we declare only Xen 3.1.0 or later & thus drop all the crufty xm_internal.c code. As a starting point I'd say we should support a particular HV release for as long as it is shipped in the current release of a major distro. ie we'd support Xen 3.0.3 for as long as RHEL-5 was most recent, and once RHEL-6 came out we'd drop Xen 3.0.3 support, picking the next oldest Xen version that's used in a current major distro whether that's 3.1.0 or 3.3.0 or something else. This would allow distro maintainers reasonably easy backports and/or rebases to newer libvirt versions for some amount of time, without burdening us (upstream) to support ancient versions of Xen / QEMU forever. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list