Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 02/14] KVM Test: Add a function get_interface_name() to kvm_net_utils.py

[Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:29:22PM +0300, Michael Goldish wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 05:08 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 09:35 +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> >> The function get_interface_name is used to get the interface name of linux
> >> guest through the macaddress of specified macaddress.
> > 
> > I wonder if it wouldn't be overkill to have separate utility libraries
> > on the kvm test instead of a single kvm_utils and kvm_test_utils like
> > you are proposing. Any thoughts Michael?
> 
> Yes, looks like this could be in kvm_test_utils.py, especially if
> there's only a small number of functions here.

Current functions of network are not too much, but we may add a lot of new utility functions in the future.
It's more clear to use another file.
 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_net_utils.py b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_net_utils.py
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..ede4965
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_net_utils.py
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> >> +import re
> >> +
> >> +def get_linux_ifname(session, mac_address):
> >> +    """
> >> +    Get the interface name through the mac address.
> >> +
> >> +    @param session: session to the virtual machine
> >> +    @mac_address: the macaddress of nic
> >> +    """
> >> +
> >> +    output = session.get_command_output("ifconfig -a")
> >> +
> >> +    try:
> >> +        ethname = re.findall("(\w+)\s+Link.*%s" % mac_address, output,
> >> +                             re.IGNORECASE)[0]
> >> +        return ethname
> >> +    except:
> >> +        return None
> >>
> >>
> > 
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