On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:04:26AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 20:54 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > What this patch allows you to do is to create a table of IP address to > > host (defined by its hardware / MAC address) for each virtual network. > > Optionally you can also assign a hostname. When a host starts up and > > requests an IP address through DHCP, if it is in this table then it > > gets the fixed IP address from the table and, optionally, a fixed > > hostname. > > > > Four new API calls are added. Two are required to list the contents > > of the mapping table. Two more allow you to add and delete a mapping. > > > > The mapping table is semi-permanent. It is stored in > > /var/lib/libvirt/hosts-<networkname>.conf and survives across libvirtd > > restarts. > > Cool stuff, but why isn't this just an addition to the network's XML > definition? Well indeed. It's essentially because this implementation was thought to be easier. I haven't tried the other implementation so I'm not categorically sure that is true. Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list