Oracle VM and network bonding

Oracle VM, out of the box, does not allow network bonds. An excellent guide on how to enable bonding which I have partially followed, has convinced me that changing the relevant scripts would be better. That I have done, and reported in this wiki post.

To sum things up – configure bonding/VLAN tagging as you would have normally do on any RHEL-based Linux distro, and replace the script /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridges with the modified one mentioned below. This script will define bridge for each network interface node already defined as bridge, or slave of a bond connection, as part of the xend service.

#!/bin/bash 
# 
# Runs network-bridge against each ethernet card. 
# 

dir=$(dirname "$0") 

run_all_ethernets() 
{ 
    devnum=0
    for f in /sys/class/net/*; do 
        netdev=$(basename $f) 
        if [[ $netdev =~ "^bond[0-9.]+$" ]] || [[ $netdev =~ "^eth[0-9.]+$" ]]; then 
		# devnum=${netdev:3} 
		unset SLAVE MASTER BRIDGE
		. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-${netdev}
		if [[ `echo $SLAVE | egrep "yes|YES|1"` ]] || [[ -n "$BRIDGE" ]] ;then            
			echo "Interface ${netdev} is being defined and claimed by someone else"
		else	
			if [[ $netdev =~ "^((eth)|(bond))[0-9]+." ]]; then
				# This is vlan tagging, and we want persistent vlan name!
				VLAN=$(echo $netdev | cut -f2 -d.)
				# Assume tags are unique on a server - no several bridges for a single tag.
				# If you intend on having eth2.3 and eth3.3 to your vms as bridges (and not deal with it
				# on the host level), this script is not for you
				$dir/network-bridge "$@" "netdev=${netdev}" "bridge=xenbrv${VLAN}"
			else
				$dir/network-bridge "$@" "netdev=${netdev}" "bridge=xenbr${devnum}" 
				let devnum++
			fi
	  	fi
        fi  
    done 
} 

run_all_ethernets "$@"