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Stefan Berger b7d00de2bd Fix libvirt upgrade path when nwfilter is used
Between revision 65fb9d49 and before this patch, an upgrade of libvirt while
VMs are running and instantiating iptables filtering rules due to nwfilter
rules, may leave stray iptables rules behind when shutting VMs down.
Left-over iptables rules may look like this:

Chain FP-vnet0 (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
DROP       tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp spt:122
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           

[...]

Chain libvirt-out (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination         
FO-vnet0   all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           [goto]  PHYSDEV match --physdev-out vnet0



The reason is that the recent nwfilter code only removed filtering rules in
the libvirt-out chain that contain the --physdev-is-bridged parameter.
Older rules didn't match and were not removed.

Note that the user-defined chain FO-vnet0 could not be removed due to the
reference from the rule in libvirt-out.

Often the work around may be done through

service iptables restart
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof libvirtd)

This patch now also removes older libvirt versions' iptables rules.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-02-15 21:33:37 -05:00
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README

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>