[Engine-devel] VNIC profiles

[Oved Ourfalli]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 11:25:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] VNIC profiles
> 
> On 07/13/2013 01:17 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > On 07/08/2013 11:21 AM, Moti Asayag wrote:
> >>
> >>
> > ...
> >>
> >> The wiki was updated with the VM/Template import logic:
> >>
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Vnic_Profiles#VM_snapshot.2Fimport.2Fexport
> > 
> > 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.
> 

I'm in favor of this option as well.

> > 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
> 
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