[Engine-devel] VNIC profiles

[Moti Asayag]

On 07/13/2013 01:17 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 07/08/2013 11:21 AM, Moti Asayag wrote:
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>> The wiki was updated with the VM/Template import logic:
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>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Vnic_Profiles#VM_snapshot.2Fimport.2Fexport
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> 1. you are updating the OVF - have you found a matching field in the OVF
> spec[1] for vnic profiles?
> 

Currently the only field used to specify the network is "Connection".
There is no specific field for specifying a vnic profile. We can make
a use of the 'OtherResourceType' which isn't in use by the engine for
storing the vnic profile name.

An alternative would be using the Connection field to store both
Network:Profile, and parsing it when a vm or template are being imported.

I'm in favour of the first option for simplicity and in order not to
modify the Connection field as is being used today.

> 2. import/export - please note exporting is backward compatible based on
> DC level (iirc - omer should remember better), i.e., if the DC is 3.2,
> the export should ignore vnic profiles, etc.
> 
> 3. while at it - just to make sure before i add more comments- are the
> screenshots in the wiki up to date?

The images should be updated since the vnic profiles will be a main-tab,
appears only when a network is selected, instead of a sub-tab of the
networks.

> 
> Thanks,
>    Itamar
> 
> [1] http://dmtf.org/standards/ovf