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* [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 0/12] TAP support (and a few other small things)
@ 2009-08-02 23:58 Michael Goldish
  2009-08-02 23:58 ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 01/12] KVM test: add some MAC/IP address utilities to kvm_utils Michael Goldish
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From: Michael Goldish @ 2009-08-02 23:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: autotest, kvm


Here's my proposed TAP solution:
- The user specifies MAC ranges and may or may not specify corresponding IP
ranges.
- VMs are always given MAC addresses from the user specified MAC ranges.
- MAC address ranges must be unique to each host running KVM tests -- there
must be no overlap between them.
- If corresponding IP ranges are specified as well, the system will use them
when trying to communicate with guests.
- If corresponding IP ranges are not specified, tcpdump will be used to listen
to DHCP traffic and dynamically detect the right IP addresses. There's also a
flag that can force this behavior.
- tcpdump will run in the background at all times, and collect MAC-IP pairs
as soon as they are assigned by the DHCP server.  This is useful for
NIC hotplugging (where IP addresses are assigned during the test itself) and
generally for misbehaving guests or DHCP servers (restarting network services
during the test, using very short lease times).
- It is up to the user to create the actual bridge for TAP devices; the
qemu-ifup script included in one of the patches only adds the TAP interface to
an existing bridge.  The user should modify this script or create a bridge
some other way.

This works very well on two hosts I tried, but I'm not entirely sure it will
work in all cases -- please let me know what you think.

(I remember Jason Wang mentioned that tcpdump doesn't always catch all the
required traffic, or that it might somehow depend on the DHCP server -- anyone
willing to comment on that?)

The following patches have been tested with a few KVM tests (boot, reboot,
stress_boot, migration) with both TAP and user mode, but they could probably
use more testing (maybe with Python 2.6?), so if anyone is willing to help
with that I'd appreciate it very much.

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2009-08-02 23:58 [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 0/12] TAP support (and a few other small things) Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58 ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 01/12] KVM test: add some MAC/IP address utilities to kvm_utils Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 02/12] KVM test: add basic TAP support with static MAC-IP mapping Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 03/12] KVM test: add sample 'qemu-ifup' script Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 12:10     ` [Autotest] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-05 12:51       ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-06  5:41         ` sudhir kumar
2009-08-06 11:42           ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 04/12] KVM test: add host-specific MAC-IP pool configuration Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 05/12] KVM test: specify installation cdkeys in a dedicated file Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 12:15     ` [Autotest] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-05 14:02       ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 06/12] KVM test: minor style changes to kvm_config.py Michael Goldish
2009-08-07 21:47     ` [Autotest] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 07/12] KVM test: kvm_config.py: do not fail when including a nonexistent file Michael Goldish
2009-08-07 21:51     ` [Autotest] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-07 22:24       ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-07 23:19         ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 08/12] KVM test: kvm_subprocess: send user specified parameters to kvm_tail callbacks Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 09/12] KVM test: dynamically detect and cache MAC-IP pairs using tcpdump Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 10/12] KVM test: kvm_utils.py: small fix for format_str_for_message() Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 11/12] KVM test: make VMs use a dynamic MAC-IP mapping generated by tcpdump Michael Goldish
2009-08-02 23:58   ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 12/12] KVM test: make stress_boot work properly with TAP networking Michael Goldish
2009-08-03  3:17     ` Yolkfull Chow
2009-08-03  9:24 ` [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH 0/12] TAP support (and a few other small things) Dor Laor
2009-08-03  9:39   ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-03 11:57     ` Dor Laor
2009-08-03 14:10 ` [Autotest] " Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
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2009-08-03 13:51 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-04 10:23   ` Dor Laor
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2009-08-04 11:00 ` Michael Goldish

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