The domain XML generator creates the mac addres strings with lowercase
strings with a separate piece of code. This patch changes the formating
helper to do the same stuff to allow using it to normalize a string
provided by the user. After this change some of the tests that are
outputing the mac address will need to be changed.
This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609463
The problem was that, since a bridge always acquires the MAC address
of the connected interface with the numerically lowest MAC, as guests
are started and stopped, it was possible for the MAC address to change
over time, and this change in the network was being detected by
Windows 7 (it sees the MAC of the default route change), so on each
reboot it would bring up a dialog box asking about this "new network".
The solution is to create a dummy tap interface with a MAC guaranteed
to be lower than any guest interface's MAC, and attach that tap to the
bridge as soon as it's created. Since all guest MAC addresses start
with 0xFE, we can just generate a MAC with the standard "0x52, 0x54,
0" prefix, and it's guaranteed to always win (physical interfaces are
never connected to these bridges, so we don't need to worry about
competing numerically with them).
Note that the dummy tap is never set to IFF_UP state - that's not
necessary in order for the bridge to take its MAC, and not setting it
to UP eliminates the clutter of having an (eg) "virbr0-nic" displayed
in the output of the ifconfig command.
I chose to not auto-generate the MAC address in the network XML
parser, as there are likely to be consumers of that API that don't
need or want to have a MAC address associated with the
bridge.
Instead, in bridge_driver.c when the network is being defined, if
there is no MAC, one is generated. To account for virtual network
configs that already exist when upgrading from an older version of
libvirt, I've added a %post script to the specfile that searches for
all network definitions in both the config directory
(/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks) and the state directory
(/var/lib/libvirt/network) that are missing a mac address, generates a
random address, and adds it to the config (and a matching address to
the state file, if there is one).
docs/formatnetwork.html.in: document <mac address.../>
docs/schemas/network.rng: add nac address to schema
libvirt.spec.in: %post script to update existing networks
src/conf/network_conf.[ch]: parse and format <mac address.../>
src/libvirt_private.syms: export a couple private symbols we need
src/network/bridge_driver.c:
auto-generate mac address when needed,
create dummy interface if mac address is present.
tests/networkxml2xmlin/isolated-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlin/routed-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlout/isolated-network.xml
tests/networkxml2xmlout/routed-network.xml: add mac address to some tests
Ján Tomko