There has been a problem for several years with libvirt's default
virtual network conflicting with the host physical network connection
on new installs, particularly when the "host" is actually a virtual
machine that is, itself, connected to the libvirt default network on
its respective host. If the two default networks use the same subnet,
and if the nested host's libvirt happens to start its network before
the system networking connects to the L0 host, then network
connectivity to the L1 guest is just silently non-working.
We've tried several things over the years to eliminate this problem,
including:
1) Checking for conflicting routes/interfaces during installation of
the libvirt-daemon-config-network package (the one containing the
default network config file) which tries different subnets until it
finds one that doesn't conflict. This helps in some cases, but
fails on 2 points: a) if the installation environment is different
from the environment where the system is actually run (e.g. a "live
CD" image of a distro, which is built in a container by the distro
maintainers, then could later run in any number of places, and b)
it modifies the installed files during the rpm installation %post
script, which is now discouraged because people building container
images don't like dealing with that.
2) When starting a libvirt network, we now check for any route or
interface that conflicts with the new network's IP's and
routes. This doesn't fix the problem, but does notify the user of
the problem *as long as libvirt starts its networks after the host
has started its system networks*.
3) New code (in the commits immediately previous to this one) add
support for an "autoaddr" attribute in each virtual network <ip>
element; when autoaddr is set, the network driver goes one step
beyond (2) and actually finds an unused subnet and sets the new
virtual network's addresses accordingly.
These are all nice in their own ways, but none of them helps in the
situation where libvirt's networks are started first (before the
host's own network connections are all up). This led to this patch,
which does the following:
4) Using a NetworkManager facility (dispatcher.d pscripts, which are
run whenever any interface is brought up or down), check for any
libvirt networks that conflict with a newly started NetworkManager
interface, and if a conflict is found then log a message and
destroy the libvirt network. Most usefully, though, if this
destroyed network has autoaddr='yes' then the script will
immediately restart the network, which will find a new, unused
subnet.
Once this is in place, the only issues are:
1) It only works with NetworkManager. But of course almost all of the
cases where this problem has been an issue, networking is managed
by NetworkManager.
2) If there are guests already running and connected to the network,
they will be disconnected, and won't be reconnected until
libvirtd/virtqemud is restarted (one of the things the QEMU driver
does when rereading the status of active guests is to make sure all
their interfaces are connected to their respective networks).
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
libvirt.spec.in | 2 +
src/network/meson.build | 6 +
src/network/nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 204 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 src/network/nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 29101e74fe..51cecfa598 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ Network filter configuration files for cleaning guest traffic
Summary: Network driver plugin for the libvirtd daemon
Requires: libvirt-daemon-common = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: libvirt-libs = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: python3-libxml2
Requires: dnsmasq >= 2.41
%if %{prefer_nftables}
Requires: nftables
@@ -2151,6 +2152,7 @@ exit 0
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/
%attr(0755, root, root) %{_libexecdir}/libvirt_leaseshelper
%{_libdir}/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_network.so
+%{_prefix}/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/50-libvirt-check-nets
%{_mandir}/man8/virtnetworkd.8*
%if %{with_firewalld_zone}
%{_prefix}/lib/firewalld/zones/libvirt.xml
diff --git a/src/network/meson.build b/src/network/meson.build
index 8faff6eb1c..f620407759 100644
--- a/src/network/meson.build
+++ b/src/network/meson.build
@@ -169,4 +169,10 @@ if conf.has('WITH_NETWORK')
rename: [ 'libvirt-routed-in.xml' ],
)
endif
+
+ install_data(
+ 'nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py',
+ install_dir: prefix / 'lib' / 'NetworkManager' / 'dispatcher.d',
+ rename: [ '50-libvirt-check-nets' ],
+ )
endif
diff --git a/src/network/nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py b/src/network/nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..454c434c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/network/nm-dispatcher-check-nets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this library. If not, see
+# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+import libvirt
+import sys
+import os
+import libxml2
+from ipaddress import ip_network
+
+# This script should be installed in
+# /usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/50-libvirt-check-nets. It will be
+# called by NetworkManager every time a network interface is taken up
+# or down. When a new network comes up, it checks the libvirt virtual
+# networks to see if their IP address(es) (including any static
+# routes) are in conflict with the IP address(es) (or static routes)
+# of the newly added interface. If so, the libvirt network is
+# disabled. It is assumed that the user will notice that their guests
+# no longer have network connectvity (and/or the message logged by
+# this script), see that the network has been disabled, and then
+# realize the conflict when they try to restart it.
+#
+# set checkDefaultOnly=False to check *all* active libvirt networks
+# for conflicts with the new interface. Set to True to check only the
+# libvirt default network (since most networks other than the default
+# network are added post-install at a time when all of the hosts other
+# networks are already active, it may be overkill to check all of the
+# libvirt networks for conflict here (and instead just add more
+# needless overheard to bringing up a new host interface).
+#
+checkDefaultOnly = False
+
+# NB: since this file is installed in /usr/lib, it really shouldn't be
+# modified by the user, but instead should be copied to
+# /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, where it will override the copy in
+# /usr/lib. Even that isn't a proper solution though - if we're going
+# to actually have this config knob, perhaps we should check for it in
+# the environment, and if someone wants to modify it they can put a
+# short script in /etc that exports and environment variable and then
+# calls this script? Just thinking out loud here.
+
+
+def checkconflict(conn, netname, hostnets, hostif):
