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Date:      Fri, 5 Aug 2022 15:43:55 +0200
From:      Ondra Knezour <knezour@weboutsourcing.cz>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Better network reporting from FreeBSD VM via xenstore
Message-ID:  <eac38924-3e62-ae7e-ebb1-882cc629aa20@weboutsourcing.cz>

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Hello all,

it seems to me that there is some room to improve how are things about 
networking reported from FreeBSD VM to the hypervisor.

Now we have function xe_ip_if() in /usr/local/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs 
which just grep for xn interfaces, read one IP address for each which is 
eventually written to the /var/cache/xenstore/attr/ethNUMBER/ip

First - from where the ip node comes? I didn't find any such in 
https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/xenstore-paths.html

We have

xenstore ls attr
eth0 = ""
  ip = "10.0.0.1"
PVAddons = ""
  MajorVersion = "6"
  MinorVersion = "2"
  MicroVersion = "0"
  BuildVersion = "76888"
  Installed = "1"

But on Linux

xenstore ls | grep attr -A 50
attr = ""
  PVAddons = ""
   BuildVersion = "1"
   Installed = "1"
   MajorVersion = "8"
   MinorVersion = "1"
   MicroVersion = "50"
  vif = ""
   1 = ""
    ipv6 = ""
     0 = "fe80::9c30:52ff:fef1:8711"
    ipv4 = ""
     0 = "10.128.99.15"
   2 = ""
    ipv4 = ""
     0 = "10.0.1.15"
    ipv6 = ""
     0 = "fe80::e833:9cff:fe5e:c21c"
   0 = ""
    ipv4 = ""
     0 = "172.22.1.15"
    ipv6 = ""
     0 = "fe80::c0ff:d7ff:fee2:b5ff"
xenserver = ""
  attr = ""
  device = ""
   vbd3 = ""
    768 = ""
    5696 = ""
   vif = ""
    0 = ""
     static-ip-setting = ""
      mac = "c2:ff:d7:e2:b5:ff"
      error-code = "0"
      error-msg = ""
      enabled = "0"
      enabled6 = "0"
    1 = ""
     static-ip-setting = ""
      mac = "9e:30:52:f1:87:11"
      error-code = "0"
      error-msg = ""
      enabled = "0"
      enabled6 = "0"
    2 = ""
     static-ip-setting = ""
      mac = "ea:33:9c:5e:c2:1c"
      error-code = "0"
      error-msg = ""
      enabled = "0"
      enabled6 = "0"

And secondly - I have multiple interfaces in VM, renamed by VLANs their 
are connected to. Some of them have multiple IPv4 addresses. Some also 
have IPv6 address(es). Bummer, I don't see any of this in pool 
management. And I wouldn't even without interface renames, because we 
report only one IPv4 address. First problem may be solved with some 
creative work with /etc/rc.conf, for example using result of following 
command in adition to simple ifconfig | grep xn

sysrc -a | grep -E "ifconfig_xn[[:digit:]]_name"
ifconfig_xn0_name: vlan1000
ifconfig_xn1_name: vlan1001
ifconfig_xn2_name: vlan2000

or list all ethernet interfaces (ifconfig -l ether) and look for 
ifconfig_xnX_name line for each not(xn). But regarding other missing 
info/nodes, I just don't know. May someone please enlighten me what is 
missing on our side?

uname -a
FreeBSD hostname 13.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE 
releng/13.1-n250148-fc952ac2212 GENERIC amd64

pkg info xe\*
xe-guest-utilities-6.2.0_3
xen-guest-tools-4.14.0



-- 
Best regards

Ondra Knezour


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