[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#492228: Bug#492228: Please support virtio network interfaces

[Guido Trotter]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:08:33PM -0400, Guido Günther wrote:

Hi,

> > Could you please allow virtio network interfaces to be created by
> > libvirt. Ubuntu has this in hardy, the source package is 0.4.0-2ubuntu8
> > and it's done using a patch called nic-model.patch. It might be really
> > useful if such a patch made it upstream as well.
> Could you attach the patch to the report please? 
> 

I'm attaching the patch they're using... It doesn't apply cleanly, and haven't
worked on modifying yet... I could, though, if you're interested in applying it...

> Shouldn't this work in 0.4.4 already? It seems that any nic model is
> allowed.

I can't find any reference to it in:
file:///usr/share/doc/libvirt-doc/formatdomain.html
Actually, you're right, it works... Too bad it's undocumented... How did you
find about it? I checked the documentation and the code to see if something
similar to the ubuntu patch was applied, and couldn't find it... :( Ok, in light
of this I'm not attaching the patch, but the html documentation should refer to
this feature!! :)

Thanks,

Guido