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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@netbsd.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Document qemu-ifup on NetBSD
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 09:21:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBe6JpR6jOLvYDz6@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210130230300.11664-2-bouyer@netbsd.org>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:03:00AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Document that on NetBSD, the tap interface will be configured by the
> qemu-ifup script. Document the arguments, and XEN_DOMAIN_ID environnement
> variable.

You are missing a Signed-off-by tag here ;).

> ---
>  docs/man/xl-network-configuration.5.pod | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/man/xl-network-configuration.5.pod b/docs/man/xl-network-configuration.5.pod
> index af058d4d3c..f6eb6c31fc 100644
> --- a/docs/man/xl-network-configuration.5.pod
> +++ b/docs/man/xl-network-configuration.5.pod
> @@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ add it to the relevant bridge). Defaults to
>  C<XEN_SCRIPT_DIR/vif-bridge> but can be set to any script. Some example
>  scripts are installed in C<XEN_SCRIPT_DIR>.
>  
> +On NetBSD, HVM guests will always use
> +C<XEN_SCRIPT_DIR/qemu-ifup> to configure the tap interface. The first argument
> +is the tap interface, the second is the bridge name. the environnement variable
> +C<XEN_DOMAIN_ID> contains the domU's ID.

LGTM, but I would make it even less technical and more user focused:

Note on NetBSD HVM guests will ignore the script option for tap
(emulated) interfaces and always use C<XEN_SCRIPT_DIR/qemu-ifup> to
configure the interface in bridged mode.

Thanks, Roger.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-30 23:02 [PATCH v3 1/2] libs/light: pass some infos to qemu Manuel Bouyer
2021-01-30 23:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] Document qemu-ifup on NetBSD Manuel Bouyer
2021-02-01  8:21   ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2021-02-01  9:37     ` Manuel Bouyer
2021-02-01 10:58       ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-02-01 14:59         ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-01 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] libs/light: pass some infos to qemu Ian Jackson

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