> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:10 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; [email protected]; Ubuntu > kernel > team; Tom Hanrahan > Subject: Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:32 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > Ben, > > > > Sorry to be top posting; since I got into this thread late and I was > > only commenting on one item, I felt top posting was appropriate. > > Thanks for the patches and the analysis. With regards to question 4, > > why do you say the protocol is not stable. The protocol is stable and > > is backward compatible. However, our implementation on the guest side > > has been incremental and with incomplete knowledge of the protocol. > > I mean the kernel-to-daemon connector protocol, not the host-to-guest > protocol. > > Do you expect to change the connector protocol in future, and if so > would the new daemon then be incompatible with old kernel versions? If > so, then the daemon needs to be packaged in such a way that there can be > multiple versions installed and we automatically start whichever matches > the current kernel version. But if it will remain backward-compatible > then we don't need to bother with that. > > > Recently I sent out patches for IP injection based on our current code > > base. The patches are still in Greg's queue. Once Greg deals with > > these patches, we can work on getting your changes in. In the > > meantime, we can test your patches. > > Thanks. > > Ben.
Ben, As I told you I am currently implementing IP injection via KVP. Is there standard for how the IP configuration will be persistently stored and flushed. As I look at current distros each of them have different files for saving this information. Regards, K. Y
