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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-3.1-testing] xend: fix server/n

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-3.1-testing] xend: fix server/netif.py so that it respects type=None.
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:06:56 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 5/10/07 15:33, "David Edmondson" <dme@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> Bear in mind that you need a fix quite quickly for 3.1.1...
> > 
> > What is "quite quickly"?
> 
> We plan to release within a week. Really this needs to be fixed by end of
> Monday. Seems to me we can knock up something suitable in that timeframe
> though.
> 
> Daniel: Could we simply make xoptions.netback_type = None by default (for
> all but Solaris) instead of "netfront"? Then we could put:
>  if not typ:
>     typ = xoptions.netback_type
> 
> Back in as is and it'd do the right thing?

That would certainly work for Linux, though it would not enable the HVM
guests on a Solaris host to be configured with both PV drivers & QEMU at
the same time. Upto solaris guys if that's a good enough solution...

Dan.
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