On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:27:28PM -0700, Erik Nordmark wrote: > 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.
It should be advice to users. Both cases (administrator sets parameters "inside" the guest domain and administrator allows "outside" parameters) are useful in different situations, I think. > >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? The current Xen tools have no IPv6 attributes defined. dme.
