[SIG-network] Meeting Notes 2026-04-20

[Andrew Burden]

04-20-2026 

Recording: https://youtu.be/KR8N7XyJWmo 

Attendees: Orel Misan Edward Haas Nir Dothan

Agenda:

• Existing VEPs

• VEP 21: Passt seamless migration and core binding

• It has reached Beta status in v1.8

• The v1.9 graduation will be postponed due to unresolved issues within 'passt' that cannot be addressed in time.

• Our CI lanes will require adjustment once this feature is enabled by default.

• VEP 106: Decouple net-attach-def from KubeVirt

• It was introduced as a Beta feature in v1.8.

• Our CI lanes will require adjustment once this feature is enabled by default.

• VEP 111: Upgrade Path for VMs Using Ordinal Naming for Secondary Networks

• It was introduced as a Beta feature in v1.8.

• https://github.com/kubevirt/enhancements/pull/275 

• VEP 140: Live update NAD reference, should graduate in v1.9

• It has reached Beta status in v1.8 and is scheduled to graduate in v1.9.

• Our CI lanes will require adjustment once this feature is enabled by default.

• VEPs under consideration for v1.9

• VEP 140: Live update NAD reference - graduates to GA

• https://github.com/kubevirt/enhancements/pull/271

• VEP 183: NetworkDevicesWithDRA

• VEP 168: Masquerade Port Ranges

• VEP 148: Persist Runtime MACs to VM.Spec

• VEP 192: Decentralized Live Migration LM network proxy support

• VEP 206: Pre-flight checks for decentralized live migration

• Pending author response

• VEP 235: Support for VM Network Bandwidth Limiting

• VEP 224: Metadata Service Enablement

• Seems like there is no changes required in KubeVirt

• Issues

• VM with macvtap and hotpluggable volume(s) fail to start https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17392 

• Default network interface is not persisted in VM spec, causing reconciliation issues https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17331

• Network hotplug and hotunplug are not gated by VMRolloutStrategy https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17328 

• https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/Z-t-wYhP5Bc/m/Nx3kQf3DAgAJ 

• Hotplug features incorrectly depend on workloadUpdateMethods configuration https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17329 

• PRs

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16697 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17393

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16485 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17394

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17241 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17458

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17063 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17336

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16856 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17476 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17534 

• https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/987

• Slack

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• Mailing list

• Heads up: passt binding plugin code removal and cease of image publication https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/qg7Gvgc-lhM/m/eE9jnyfUBwAJ 

• Open floor

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Action item

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  Evaluate VEP 148 implementation