On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:49 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:00:16AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > The thing is, this has to integrate with existing configuration - > > there's no point in futzing about with "ip link set eth0 ..." if the > > user has configured eth0 with NetworkManager or the distro's networking > > scripts. > > Yes, I think option 2 is pretty much doomed to fail. If you don't > integrate with the native distro mgmt scripts, or with NetworkManager > then you are forever going to have a fight between who's managing > what. You can already see this with Xen's network-bridge script > which cna be considered option 2. If you restart your network using > the distro scripts, after Xen's network-bridge script has run, then > you end up wwith a completely trashed host network. That goes for pretty much any config munging task - don't ever change the canonical place where config data is stored; for network devices that's dictated by the distro. Whatever we do for libvirt can only ever be an (updatable) view of that data. David -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list