Add an option allowing the use of a defined tap device with "virt-install"

Tina Rakotoarivelo <tina.rakotoarivelo@xxxxxxxx> · Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:47:48 +0100



    Hello,

      
      We use KVM with libvirt on a scientific instrument designed to
      supports experiment-driven research in all areas of computer
      science related to large-scale parallel or distributed systems.

      
      Our
          users do not have root access on the
          production environment. A
          script based on "sudo" is available to create
        tap devices
          (tap0...tapn). So they
          can run their guest VMs with "kvm" or "virsh" commands using
          the defined tap devices and a defined range of MAC adresses
          (we have an ACL for DHCP requests from all VMs).

          
          Now, we want to allow the users to use "virt-install" with a
          tap device already created.

          So we want to evaluate if adding that option to "virt-install"
          is difficult or not?

          
          Thanks for your help,

          Regards,

      
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Tina Rakotoarivelo