RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: Do not mess with bridge if admin has set one up already

["Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@xxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Jackson
>Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 8:07 AM
>To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: Do not mess with bridge if admin has
>set one up already
>
>Previously, the default "network-script",
>/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge, would attempt to do its horrid work
>even if you had already set everything up in /etc/network/interfaces.
>
>Setting up your bridge in /etc/network/interfaces is:
> * easy
> * required for libxl since libxl never does it for you
> * not a fragile piece of lunacy
> * properly documented
> * the way everyone would expect it to work
>
>In this small patch we make it so that the default config for xend
>doesn't mess about on startup if you already have a bridge, and
>doesn't mess about on shutdown unless your first-named bridge (eth0 or
>xenbr0, normally) doesn't also have a physical interface named
>p<whatever> (peth0 or pxenbr0) enslaved to it.  The latter test is not
>ideal but will hopefully do from now until the time xend finally dies.
>
>We also fix the "documentation" - ie, the comments in the default
>xend-config.sxp - to correspond to reality.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Finally!  Much Appreciated!!!

For too long I've had to hack the scripts every time I install a new Xen setup 
so that it won't muck with my custom bridge settings.

Thanks!!!!

- Greg


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