[Engine-devel] Report vNic Implementation Details

[Michael Pasternak]

On 11/22/2012 12:02 AM, 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?
> 

indeed, unfortunately i can't recall exact discussion nor can find this thread in ML,
but afair this was the argument.

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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D