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Subject: Re: Using bios-settings-mgr for setting hypervisor network attributes
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On 9/16/2020 9:26 AM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 7:47 AM manoj kiran <manojkiran.eda@gmail.com 
> <mailto:manojkiran.eda@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Ed & James,
> 
>     Till now IBM was using phosphor-settings infrastructure as back-end
>     and uses Ethernet Schema for Hypervisor computer
>     system(hypervisor_ethernet.hpp) for setting the IP address of
>     hypervisor. And now we are planning to leverage the capabilities of
>     bios-settings-mgr(backend) as well to set the hypervisor attributes.
> 
>     do you see any concerns here ?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Manoj
>     Sent from Mailspring
> 
> 
> None that I can think of (although I don't know much about 
> bios-settings-mgr).  Holding all the host data in one daemon seems like 
> a better way to do it than putting it in settings.

Agree, as long as we use the mapper to look up interfaces, should be 
transparent.