[Engine-devel] Question about HotPlug

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/10/2013 10:08 AM, Moti Asayag wrote:
> 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.

+1
I'd also separate between hotplugdisk/nic
(and from what i hear, for some operations like cpu/ram, we'll need to 
distinguish between hotplug and hot unplug, but this can wait for them)

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