John Danielson wrote:
> 4.1 Interaction with sysidtool(1M)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> When a freshly installed guest domain is first booted the
> sysidtool(1M) framework will offer to store configuration data for any
> network interfaces available to the guest domain. Any IPv4
> configuration attributes entered here will prevent the use of
> attributes specified in the guest domain configuration files during
> any subsequent boot of the guest domain (as the contents of files in
> /etc take precedence over the attributes specified in the guest domain
> configuration file).
I don't understand whether the above is advise to the users (i.e.
something which will go in the documentation), or an indication that
sysidtool needs to be changed to not accidentally override hypervisor
parameters.
> 10 Further Work
> ###############
[...]
> - Enhancing the hypervisor control tools and associated mechanism to
> support the specification of IPv6 attributes.
Regarding IPv6 support, what is the reason for not doing it now? Has Xen
not defined any IPv6 attributes yet?
Erik
