Re: [netcf-devel] [cloud-dept-status] Matahari scrum - Wed 15 November, 2010

[Adam Stokes]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:23:47 +0000
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:16:46PM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>  > Attendees: Adam, Alan, Andrew
>  > 
>  > ** Adam
>  >    + Tested and documented federation
>  >    + Reworked and committed Matahari patches
>  > *** Todo
>  >     + Submit revised netcf patch by Wednesday
>  >     + Add cpu flags field to the host schema for oVirt
>  >     + Talk to netcf team to see if they're interested in supporting
>  >       hardware enumeration and MAC querying
>  
>  IMHO hardware enumeration doesn't really belong in netcf, since it is
>  a completely separate task to that of network device configuration
>  file. Hardware enumeration is something that you want outside the
>  context of network management too, eg for storage mgmt, or VM device
>  assignment etc.
>   
Thanks for the input Daniel, I would like to CC netcf list to see if
anyone else could provide their thoughts as well?

Thanks,
Adam

[cloud-dept-status] Matahari scrum - Wed 15 November, 2010

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:49:15AM -0500, Adam Stokes wrote:
>  On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:23:47 +0000
>  "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:16:46PM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>  > > Attendees: Adam, Alan, Andrew
>  > > 
>  > > ** Adam
>  > >    + Tested and documented federation
>  > >    + Reworked and committed Matahari patches
>  > > *** Todo
>  > >     + Submit revised netcf patch by Wednesday
>  > >     + Add cpu flags field to the host schema for oVirt
>  > >     + Talk to netcf team to see if they're interested in supporting
>  > >       hardware enumeration and MAC querying
>  > 
>  > IMHO hardware enumeration doesn't really belong in netcf, since it is
>  > a completely separate task to that of network device configuration
>  > file. Hardware enumeration is something that you want outside the
>  > context of network management too, eg for storage mgmt, or VM device
>  > assignment etc.
>  > 
>  
>  Thanks for the input Daniel, I would like to CC netcf list to see if
>  anyone else could provide their thoughts as well? 
As a point of reference, libvirt splits its APIs this way

 - Host device enumeration            (hal/udev+Sysfs)
 - Host hardware capabilities         (misc solutions)
 - Host storage configuration/mgmt    (misc storage cli tools)
 - Host networking configuration/mgmt (netcf)
 - Virtual machine configuration/mgmt (misc solutions)

Regards,
Daniel
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