On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 03:29:20PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > [adding Dan since he pushed a lot of this configurability originally] > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:17:27AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > > The vm-uuid external id in the interface table will uniquely identify a VM > > that is connected to a bridge through that interface. In xenserver, this > > will have the same value as the external id - xs-vm-uuid. > > When we designed the various "id" members, we ended up with: > > - system-id, which is the host-uuid from XAPI on XenServer. > > - iface-id, which defaults to xs-vif-uuid on XenServer but the > administrator can override via XAPI with > other-config:nicira-iface-id. > > - bridge-id, which defaults to xs-network-uuids on XenServer but > the administrator can override via XAPI with nicira-bridge-id. > > - xs-vif-uuid on XenServer. > > This changes the latter to: > > - vif-uuid, which is xs-vif-uuid on XenServer. > > So, for symmetry, should we: > > 1. Use "vif-id" as the name (instead of "vif-uuid"). > > 2. Add a way to override the vif-(uu)id on XenServer via XAPI with > other-config:nicira-vif-id?
Oops, of course I got the details wrong here. Ignore that message, I'll fix and resend. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
