>From the summary:
"...It supports the following actions without unplugging the Vnic, and it 
maintains the device address of the Vnic ...."

But in the dialogue section:
"If the Vnic is plugged there should be a message on top of the dialog "Please 
notice, changing Type or MAC will cause unplugging and plugging the Vnic" 

Looking at the detailed design indeed any change indeed goes through 
plug/unplug.
Please correct me if I got the above wrong. 

To support real live rewire == "Move a card from one network to another" 
The sequence should be for wired-plugged card: 
- Unwire
- Change network 
- Rewire 

I would argue that we should actually force the user to perform these steps, 
but we can do it in one go.

Any other state may change network freely.

To change name - it's just DB, so any state goes 

To change type or MAC address (= property), must go through unplug regardless 
to the wired state 
So:
- Unplug 
- Change property 
- Plug 

Again should probably ask the user to do these 3 steps so he'll know what he is 
doing, but we can do it for him with proper warning.

I also wander I do we have to drop the PCI address in the persisted table in 
this case - loosing the PCI location is redundant and will cause a move to 
another eth0 number in the guest. On the other hand changing of MAC may break 
network scripts anyhow - so I don't have a strong argument to keep it. 


Another issue:
If the nic is there to be use by a hook, then you probably want to allow 'none' 
network.
This may also be useful when allowing to purge a network while it is connected 
to VMs: unwire on all nics and connect to the none network.


Overall, looking great, and I like the wired vs unplugged that emulate real 
behavior. 

Regards, 
Simon


 







----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alona Kaplan" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected], "Simon Grinberg" <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:46:52 PM
> Subject: Network Wiring
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review the wiki and add your comments.
> 
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/NetworkWiring
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alona.
> 
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