From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-3.1-testing] xend: fix server/netif.py so that it respects type=None. Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:06:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20071005160656.GC8249@redhat.com> References: <20071005143301.GC1326@enoexec.uk.sun.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: David Edmondson , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, John Levon List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 5/10/07 15:33, "David Edmondson" wrote: > > >> Bear in mind that you need a fix quite quickly for 3.1.1... > > > > What is "quite quickly"? > > We plan to release within a week. Really this needs to be fixed by end of > Monday. Seems to me we can knock up something suitable in that timeframe > though. > > Daniel: Could we simply make xoptions.netback_type = None by default (for > all but Solaris) instead of "netfront"? Then we could put: > if not typ: > typ = xoptions.netback_type > > Back in as is and it'd do the right thing? That would certainly work for Linux, though it would not enable the HVM guests on a Solaris host to be configured with both PV drivers & QEMU at the same time. Upto solaris guys if that's a good enough solution... Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|