[ovirt-users] Custum driver in oVirt node image?

Using 3 Mini-ITX Atoms J5005 boards to build a three node HC test environment (actually there is a fourth to simulate a remote DC) These boards have a RealTek 8169 Gbit controller, which for hardware/firmware or driver reasons comes up just fine on cold boots, but struggles on warm-boots or whenever the interface is re-configured, as is the case when the OVS overlay is configured, ... * unless link-speed autonegotiation is enabled after which it works just fine. So for a normal system, I can just put a proper ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg on" into /etc/sysconfig/network-scrkipts/ifcfg-<device-name> to avoid trouble on warm boots, but once the overlay network is put on top, the network manager no longer controls the device and the standard "ignore" setting of driver/hardware evidently causes the link to fail: dmesg reports the interface toggling and ovs isn't happy either. The Ethernet switch is unmanaged, so there is nothing I can do there to speed up or eliminate negotiations, and I currently see three options: 1. Find/be told where to renable Ethernet link speed autonegotiation with the OVS/VDSM/?? so the RTL8169 is happy again 2. Use a known USB3 GBit NIC (no space in the chassis to put e.g. an Intel NIC) 3. Make an USB3 2.5Gbit NIC based on RealTek's 8156 work, but currently that requires compiling from source and loading it at boot Option 3 works just fine with a CentOS base, but I got tons of problem making oVirt hosted engine work with that. Option 3 for the oVirt node image seems to class with the read-only nature of the oVirt node imge: While I can load a pre-compile driver interactively, I can't make it stick with dracut -f. I haven't immediately found a way to patch/fix/build derivative oVirt node images with that driver included and am somewhat to impatient to wait until it's mainstream, so any help would be appreciated. I've verified option 2 with a single USB3 GBit adapter natively supported by the kernel that I already had available, but I then opted to jump the gun and buy the slightly more expensive 2.5GBit variant as a better match to a Gluster environment: A mistake in this context as it turned out.