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 8:54 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 Wed, 2012-06-27 at 00:37 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > > -----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.
> 
> Read the docs; I think it can.

Thanks; will do.

K. Y
> 
> Ben.
> 
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> Ben Hutchings
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