I raised this in a separate thread. Daan created a new patch 
https://reviews.apache.org/r/12849/ to address backward compat.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prasanna Santhanam [mailto:t...@apache.org]
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:12 AM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] vlan uri format change
> 
> Daan,
> 
> This broke the KVM setups last week on master. I couldn't find your commit-
> id for this change scanning the git logs. Toshiaki-san was looking at
> CLOUDSTACK-3682 regarding this change [1] where he makes the scheme
> backwards compatible to work with KVM agents of the past.
> Could you please have a look at the changeset?
> 
> [1] https://reviews.apache.org/r/12985/
> 
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:28:57AM +0200, Daan Hoogland wrote:
> > The gain is that enums like BroadcastDomainType and IsolationType do
> > not have to check for different formats in the presented uri. It also
> > makes it more intiutive what the parts in the uri mean; vlan://<id>
> > would inmply that id is a hostname instead of a scheme specific identifier.
> >
> > I think I am reducing complexity, not introducing any. The present use
> > of uri for vlans is abuse of the construct, i don't think my proposed
> > new use is.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Hiroaki KAWAI
> <ka...@stratosphere.co.jp>wrote:
> >
> > > Daan, I'm curious about what is the improvement of changing the vlan
> > > String format in URI?
> > >
> > > I'm -1 on pushing more complexity in URI, because that's abuse of
> > > URI class and sounds it's time to get rid of URI.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > (2013/07/01 16:47), Daan Hoogland wrote:
> > >
> > >> H,
> > >>
> > >> I've been trying to get a patch accepted and had some discussions
> > >> to do it in parts as well. I would like to refresh the first part:
> > >>
> > >> vlans are now referred as vlan://<id>. I would like to change this
> > >> to vlan:<id>. This will changee addressing the id as a scheme
> > >> specific part instead of as a host. As a result it will be easier
> > >> to fix the code to use Nicira NVP and other sdn networks whereever
> > >> vlans are used now. Doing this will result in a patch that is a
> > >> subset of my earlier patch. It touches a lot of core code and tests
> > >> but has been tested  thoroughly for VPC gateways with both vlans
> > >> and Nicira NVP.
> > >>
> > >> regards,
> > >> Daan
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> 
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> Prasanna.,
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