[ovs-dev] Resync with XenServer 5.7
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Fri Oct 2 20:36:39 UTC 2009
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell at citrix.com> writes:
> The vif hotplug script has the following changes:
> * Read extra vif details from xenstore instead of using XenAPI.
> This reduces unnecessary traffic on the pool master and is good
> for scalability. This change makes the dump-vif-details script
> redundant.
> * Manage network tap devices (emulated network devices created by
> qemu) via the hotplug script. Replaces usage
> of /etc/xen/qemu-ifup (which is removed in XenServer 5.7). This
> is necessary in order to receive tap deletion a well as creation
> events. Modified /etc/udev/rules/xen-backend.rules also
> attached.
Thank you.
I added a little bit of RPM packaging glue and stuck this into
our xs5.7 branch.
I verified that our internal autobuilder likes it, but I have not
had a chance to test it on 5.7 because the build that you passed
along is still downloading ("42 minutes remaining...") :-)
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