RE: Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

[KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:28 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 Tue, 2012-06-26 at 22:31 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> I'm afraid so.  You could probably cover a lot of distributions by
> working with NetworkManager via D-Bus
> <http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/>.  However, most
> Debian (and Ubuntu?) servers still rely on ifupdown, configured through
> /etc/network/interfaces.  Older Red Hat and SUSE releases will also need
> different treatment.

Thanks Ben. I am mostly interested in setting static IP addresses as part of this
VM replication feature. I was under the impression that NetworkManager
did not deal with static IP addresses. Is that not the case.

Regards,

K. Y