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[Leandro Reox <leandro.reox@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=python-netcf.git

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Does anyone have any experience with https://fedorahosted.org/netcf/(RH??)
>
> Just from a little search that project seems to be oriented to do this (os
> agonistic net cfg)
>
> It just seems to be missing a python api (at the moment).
>
>
> On 2/14/12 10:48 AM, "Scott Moser" <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Leandro Reox wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Anyone already implemented networking injection to RHEL systems acting
> as a
> > guest ? If no any plans to make it to Essex final ?
>
>
> Before we go down the road of trying to write system network configuration
> scripts for each potential guest OS, I'd suggest that its would be better
> to either:
>  a.) just accept that 'interfaces' is the openstack format and guests
>      should need to read that.
>  b.) create a OS agnostic interface configuration format.
>
> While you may be looking at my email address and assuming that I think 'a'
> is the right answer only to make it harder for anyone else.
>
> However, the reason I dislike the current solution (or going down a path
> of implementing population mechanisms for other operating systems) is
>  1.) you cannot possibly support all possible operating systems
>  2.) injecting files assumes host OS knowledge (or guestfs knowledge) of
>      the guest filesystem
>  3.) specific files indicates that the host can somehow determine which
>      format the guest is expecting (or also unacceptable, only allowing
>      this configuration for one OS per cloud).
>  4.) injecting files via overwriting them is lossy and possibly
>      destructive to a guest (imagine other vpn routes inserted there or
>      something else more advanced).
>
> I would *much* rather there be a "openstack networking configuration file
> format" that was put into config_drive if dhcp was not sufficient.
>
> Then, the guests are just made to read that information that is in a
> standard, easily documetable format and respond accordingly.
>
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