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RE: [Xen-devel] IP and hostname for domU

To: <aball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "jdsw" <jdsw2002@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] IP and hostname for domU
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:33:48 -0000
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> I strongly dislike the {ip, dhcp, root*} options.  They map 
> to Linux kernel options.  If someone wants to do that in the 
> configuration instead of a bootloader configuration, I think 
> the should use the ill-named 'extra' option, which is 
> appended to the kernel command line.
> This is for paravirtualized linux domU's.
> 
> Would be best if ip configuration is done in userspace of the 
> guest unless someone would ordinarily do this with kernel 
> options and doesn't want to use a bootloader.

Yep, I'd like to see these disappear when we move to the new config file
format. 

Should we wish to provide convenience functions for the linux kernel
command line ip pnp config they should be called cmdline_linux_ip_addr
etc.

Ian

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