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

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-3.1-testing] xend: fix server/netif.py so that it respects type=None.
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:09:55 +0100
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On 5/10/07 17:06, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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...

Not clear there's a perfect solution that doesn't involve modifying the
Solaris PV netback to interpret None as SunW_mac (or whatever it was).
That's probably the nicest solution of all, and get rid of netback_type
default altogether. But that may be unacceptable due to backward compat
issues with existing Solaris PV netback?

 -- Keir



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