[Engine-devel] Question about HotPlug

[Moti Asayag]

Hi Gustavo,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa" <gustavo.pedrosa at eldorado.org.br>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 8:48:25 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] Question about HotPlug
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently there is an option in the "vdc_options" table which indicates the
> operating systems that do not support NIC hotplug. I think it would be a
> better idea to use the osinfo properties file to enable or disable NIC
> hotplugging, since in this file an operating system can inherit properties
> from another one. The main idea is to disable NIC hotplugging in PPC64 VMs,
> but listing explicitly every ppc64 os in "HotPlugUnsupportedOsList" config
> value does not look like a clean way to do so. Do you agree with this?
> Should this parameter be included in the osinfo properties file?

The hotplug capability of the OS refers also to disk hotplug in addition to 
vnics hotplug.

The VmCommand.isOsSupportingHotPlug() handles the logic of the operating systems
that don't support hotplug.

+1 for moving it as a parameter in the osinfo-defaults.properties for the relevant
os.


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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa
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