[Engine-devel] Report vNic Implementation Details

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 11/22/2012 08:48 AM, Livnat Peer wrote:
> On 21/11/12 22:53, 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 ?
>>
> About the MAC address - the engine uses the MAC address to correlate
> between the guest-agent report and the VNICs defined in the engine. If
> the GA reports a MAC that the engine does not recognize the engine can
> not associate it with a VNIC.
> What the engine can do is to issue a warning to the audit log in case
> such a mismatch is recognized, Is that good enough?
>
>
> About MTU - It is not being reported by the guest agent ATM (while IPv4
> IPv6 and MAC are), If we'd like to have it I can open RFE for the GA to
> report additional fields.
Well if there are changes needed for the GA, please let me know soon, if 
it should make it into 3.2.
Thanks.
>
> Livnat
>
>
>>
>>> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/ReportingVnicImplementation
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Moti
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