[Engine-devel] Report vNic Implementation Details

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On 22/11/12 00:02, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
>>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:36:58 PM
>>> Subject: [Engine-devel] Report  vNic Implementation Details
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is a proposal for reporting the vNic implementation details as
>>> reported by the guest agent per each vNic.
>>>
>>> Please review the wiki and add your comments.
>>
>>
>> While we're making the change is there anything else we'd want to
>> report - MTU, MAC (since a user might try to override), etc ?
>>>
>>> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/ReportingVnicImplementation
> 
> iirc, the fact ip addresses appear under guest info in the api and not
> under the vnic was a modeling decision.
> for example, what if guest is using a bridge, or a bond (yes, sounds
> unlikely, but the point is it may be incorrect to assume ip-vnic relation.
> michael - do you remember the details of that discussion?

I'd love to know what drove this modeling decision.
The use case above is not a typical use case.
We know we won't be able to present the guest internal network
configuration accurately in some scenarios but if we cover 90% of the
use cases correctly I think we should not let perfect be the enemy of
(very) good ;)

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