Debian and Hyper-V VM drivers

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 00:37 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben at decadent.org.uk]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:28 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan
> > Cc: Mike Sterling; Andy Whitcroft; debian-kernel at 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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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