Thank you Marcus - Regarding documentation, if we can provide at least a high level blurb on one or two sample OS-es, it would be great Regarding OS support, just wanted to check if it is possible on Windows OS also?
Hari -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:03 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Chiradeep Vittal; Brian Angus Subject: Re: Review Request: API commands to add or remove NIC from a VM On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com>wrote: I think you're right on #1, that if you create a VM via API you can add multiple nics to the same network so long as you're not using a VPC. I don't know for sure off the top of my head though > 2. Earlier, Marcus had stated that " It doesn't strictly require a > reboot, but it does require that you apply a network config. The nic > will hot plug but you either have to reboot or manually trigger a dhcp > query " - wish to reconfirm this to be the case - also, can you please > provide a short note on how to do this, so we can add it to the documentation? > We could give some basic examples, but it's largely going to come down to specific OS, for example with linux, it could change by distribution based on the udev rules, the config file locations, dhcp client differences, etc. It would be up to the admin of the VM guest to know how to set up a network card on their guest OS. > 3. Can you please confirm this is possible for any OS (windows/Linux)? > Worst case is that the OS doesn't recognize the new NIC without a reboot. So either you make them power the VM off always before adding a NIC, or let them try to add the NIC and they can reboot if the OS doesn't support it. > 4. is there any UI component developed for this? > No, I think there is a team who specializes in this. I was thinking the other day that the UI will likely always lag behind the API in features, because new features won't get time to be implemented in UI on each release.
