On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:28:48PM +0300, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Ganeti currently supports two modes of operation for instance NICs:
> 
> - bridged mode, where network interfaces are expected to be attached to 
> bridges
>   present on the hardware nodes. In this mode the bridges *must* exist before
>   any instance-related action is taken (e.g. startup, migration).
> 
> - routed mode, where network interfaces are expected to be routed via some
>   policy routing mechanism. For these interfaces, ganeti currently requires an
>   IP address.
> 
> These two cases cover most of the desired functionality, however there may be
> cases where the prerequisites (pre-existing bridges and ip addresses) can be
> fulfilled outside the scope of Ganeti. For example, one may rely on KVM's ifup
> script to dynamically provision bridges for 802.1q VLANs on trunk ports.
> 
> To this end, we add a third mode, "manual", which simply passes the ip and 
> link
> parameters directly to the network scripts, without interpreting them or
> imposing any kind of requirements. Site-local requirements can be enforced
> using pre-hooks, which can in turn deny starting an instance with an abnormal
> network configuration.

As I see it, hv_kvm will work fine with this, but what about the other
hypervisors?

thanks,
iustin

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