Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Cc: "VDSM Project Development" <vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&gt; > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 3:13:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt-node on Gentoo > > On Monday 21 November 2011 16:00:26 Doron Fediuck wrote: > > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:49:43 Mike Burns wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 07:42 -0500, Ayal Baron wrote: > > > > > > > > Actually we're thinking about NetworkManager, not netcf. > > > > > > Does NetworkManager have an api or library level package that > > > doesn't > > > pull in all the UI bits? ovirt-node does not currently include > > > NetworkManager packages at all and we don't want to pull anything > > > that > > > is going to pull in X or another UI. > > > > > > Mike > > > > +1 > > NetworkManager pulls in gnome, while it's net being used in many > > cases, > > especially in servers. > > As for netcf in Gentoo, there's not substantial support which will > > make > > it easy to work with. > > > Clarifying my cryptic typos- netcf has no proper support in Gentoo. > It will be helpful if vdsm takes a more generic approach. Configuring the network is a difficult task. Taking a more generic approach means facing again the problems that NetworkManager found and resolved in the past. Do you know any other (mature) project that is trying to fill in the gaps between the network configurations in the various distro? I'm worried that taking a generic approach we'll end up creating a small NetworkManager clone with a smaller scope (usable only for the vdsm tasks). We could use our effort to improve NetworkManager where it's lacking of functionality/packaging. For example I've been waiting for the bridge support for a long time, I hope to see it soon.