LibvirtVIFDrivers

Libvirt VIF Driver Enhacement

This describes how the Libvirt VIF drivers will be enhanced between Folsom and Grizzly, to simplify configuration and improve integration with Quantum.

Current VIF Driver Impls in Folsom

As of Folsom the following VIF drivers exist

• [[LibvirtBridgeDriver]](LibvirtBaseVIFDriver). Connects VIFs to a plain Linux software bridge, whose name is provided by the network['bridge'] parameter. Configures filter parameters for nwfilter firewalling
• [[LibvirtOpenVswitchDriver]](LibvirtBaseVIFDriver)
• LibvirtHybridOVSBridgeDriver([[LibvirtBridgeDriver]], [[LibvirtOpenVswitchDriver]])
• [[LibvirtOpenVswitchVirtualPortDriver]]([[LibvirtOpenVswitchDriver]])
• QuantumLinuxBridgeVIFDriver(LibvirtBaseVIFDriver)