> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:28 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 Tue, 2012-06-26 at 22:31 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > [...] > > 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. > > I'm afraid so. You could probably cover a lot of distributions by > working with NetworkManager via D-Bus > <http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/>. However, most > Debian (and Ubuntu?) servers still rely on ifupdown, configured through > /etc/network/interfaces. Older Red Hat and SUSE releases will also need > different treatment.
Thanks Ben. I am mostly interested in setting static IP addresses as part of this VM replication feature. I was under the impression that NetworkManager did not deal with static IP addresses. Is that not the case. Regards, K. Y
