xe vm-migrate is forced to use management network only for live migration but 
now since XAPI works on 0.0.0.0 can we have network as a parameter to it so 
that we could decide on fastest available way ? VM RAM is getting bigger day by 
day :)

That reminds me of another reason for making this change :) This is indeed 
possible in 1.6, but you have to use the storage-motion style of vm-migrate. 
Try specifying "remote-master", " remote-username", and "remote-password" as 
the local master's details (yes, I know...), and also specify "remote-network" 
as the UUID of the network you want to send the migration data over.

On many of our hosts, we need to use routed network for the guests. These 
guests have their gateway as host which is exposed to internet.
Since adding a routed gateway is done by the admins on the fly (which sometimes 
require alteration to iptables ), it is a threat to rely on iptables to be 
always correct and intact for management.

Our management tools talk to XAPI on 80 (rrd) & 443(mgmt) which I felt safe as 
no guest could sniff it even if being in promiscuous mode. Guest carry internet 
traffic as well as DOS attack which cant be trusted.
May be you can shed some light on it.

I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but I don't think you actually 
need a second IP address in dom0 for this use case. Can you dedicate a NIC to 
guest traffic only, and not put a dom0 IP address on it (ip-configuration-mode 
= none)? This way, dom0 just acts as a layer-2 switch, and you can use an 
external gateway for routing.

Cheers,
Rob
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