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On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM <yong.hu...@smartx.com> wrote:

> From: Hyman Huang <yong.hu...@smartx.com>
>
> This series offer an automated method to configure a vhostuser interface
> in server mode, simplifying integration with DPDK-enabled Open vSwitch
> bridges.
>
> To ensure simplicity and forward compatibility, we introduce openvswitch
> backend support for vhostuser interfaces in XML configuration, with an
> optional 'autoiface' attribute.
>
> Here is an example of the config for a vhostuser interface that attached
> to bridge automatically:
>
>     <interface type='vhostuser'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:3b:83:1b'/>
>       <source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost2.sock' mode='server'/>
>       <virtualport type='openvswitch'>
>         <parameters interfaceid='9317d6b7-5fae-4464-a7e9-87d90eff2204'/>
>       </virtualport>
>       <backend type='openvswitch' autoiface='yes'>
>         <parameters bridge='ovsbr-ddpbxnhaq'/>
>       </backend>
>       <model type='virtio'/>
>       <driver queues='5'/>
>     </interface>
>
> The backend element specifies the backend implementation of the vhostuser
> interface type. The type attribute is required and currently supports
> supports openvswitch and passt.
>
> If type is openvswitch, the autoiface attribute may be specified (yes
> or no), if autoiface is yes, the parameters element bridge attribute
> is mandatory. Libvirt will derive the interface name by extracting the
> substring after the '/' character in the vhostuser server path, and
> attach it to the bridge specified by the bridge attribute.
>
> Please review. Thanks.
>
> Yong
>
> Hyman Huang (4):
>   qemu_passt: Make logFile backend-specific
>   conf: Introduce autoiface attribute for vhostuser interface
>   util: Add iface argument to virNetDevOpenvswitchAddPort
>   qemu: Implement automatic attachment of the vhostuser port
>
>  docs/formatdomain.rst                         | 37 ++++++++-
>  src/conf/domain_conf.c                        | 75 +++++++++++++++++--
>  src/conf/domain_conf.h                        | 13 +++-
>  src/conf/domain_postparse.c                   | 46 ++++++++++++
>  src/conf/domain_validate.c                    | 24 ++++++
>  src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng             | 20 +++++
>  src/lxc/lxc_process.c                         |  3 +-
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                       |  3 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c                       |  4 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_interface.c                     | 46 ++++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_interface.h                     |  3 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_passt.c                         |  4 +-
>  src/qemu/qemu_process.c                       |  4 +
>  src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c               | 36 ++++++++-
>  src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.h               | 10 ++-
>  src/util/virnetdevtap.c                       |  3 +-
>  .../net-vhostuser.x86_64-latest.xml           | 10 +++
>  tests/qemuxmlconfdata/net-vhostuser.xml       | 10 +++
>  18 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>

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