Re: [PATCH 1/3] qapi/net: Add new QMP command for COLO passthrough

[Jason Wang]

On 2021/1/5 上午11:28, Zhang, Chen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 11:57 AM
> > To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>; qemu-dev <qemu-
> > devel@nongnu.org>; Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>; Dr. David Alan
> > Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>; Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Zhang Chen <zhangckid@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] qapi/net: Add new QMP command for COLO
> > passthrough
> >
> >
> > On 2020/12/29 上午10:56, Zhang, Chen wrote:
> > > > I think we can start form COLO. To avoid QMP compatibility issues, I
> > > > would like to add the n tuple and wildcard support now.
> > > OK, I will do this job in next version.
> > > For the QMP compatibility issues, please give me a demo of what we want
> > to see, Like some existing commands.
> >
> >
> > I meant if we start from port and then want to add e.g n-tuple support.
> > Do we need to introduce another command? Or is there any introspection
> > that can let management layer know about this?
> OK, I will add the n-tuple support.
> It looks basic command are add/del connection, Do you think something needs to 
> be introduced?


It looks to me it's fine to start with them.


> For the management layer, I don't know the detail process of how to add new 
> Qemu command support for example libvirt.
> Maybe depend on libvirt community's plan?


So a question here, how COLO is being used now. Is it expected to be 
managed by libvirt or not?

Thanks


> Thanks
> Chen
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> > > Chen