RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:10 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; Ubuntu kernel
> team; Tom Hanrahan
> Subject: Re: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers
>
> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:32 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > Sorry to be top posting; since I got into this thread late and I was
> > only commenting on one item, I felt top posting was appropriate.
> > Thanks for the patches and the analysis. With regards to question 4,
> > why do you say the protocol is not stable. The protocol is stable and
> > is backward compatible. However, our implementation on the guest side
> > has been incremental and with incomplete knowledge of the protocol.
>
> I mean the kernel-to-daemon connector protocol, not the host-to-guest
> protocol.
>
> Do you expect to change the connector protocol in future, and if so
> would the new daemon then be incompatible with old kernel versions? If
> so, then the daemon needs to be packaged in such a way that there can be
> multiple versions installed and we automatically start whichever matches
> the current kernel version. But if it will remain backward-compatible
> then we don't need to bother with that.
>
> > Recently I sent out patches for IP injection based on our current code
> > base. The patches are still in Greg's queue. Once Greg deals with
> > these patches, we can work on getting your changes in. In the
> > meantime, we can test your patches.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ben.
Ben,
As I told you I am currently implementing IP injection via KVP. Is there standard for how the IP
configuration will be persistently stored and flushed. As I look at current distros each of them have
different files for saving this information.
Regards,
K. Y
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