Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [slirp] add nextserver support in slirp's dhcp-server

[Eric Blake]

On 06/21/2013 07:20 AM, Bas van Sisseren wrote:
> The slirp dhcp-server normally returns its own address as tftp
> nextserver for netbooting. This patch makes that address
> configurable, so it is possible to use an external tftp boot-
> environment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bas van Sisseren <address@hidden>
> ---
>  net/slirp.c      | 10 ++++++++--

> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -2537,6 +2537,8 @@
>  # @dhcpstart: #optional the first of the 16 IPs the built-in DHCP server can
>  #             assign
>  #
> +# @nextserver: #optional IP address of BOOTP server
> +#

Please mark this field as '(since 1.6)'.  Does the field work for both
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses?

>  # @dns: #optional guest-visible address of the virtual nameserver
>  #
>  # @dnssearch: #optional list of DNS suffixes to search, passed as DHCP option
> @@ -2563,6 +2565,7 @@
>      '*tftp':      'str',
>      '*bootfile':  'str',
>      '*dhcpstart': 'str',
> +    '*nextserver': 'str',

This is a command addition that libvirt can't take advantage of unless
we get introspection working in a timely manner.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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