[ovs-dev] [PATCH] utilities: Use FQDN for external_ids:hostname in Openvswitch table

Babu Shanmugam bschanmu at redhat.com
Wed Nov 23 06:25:51 UTC 2016



On Wednesday 23 November 2016 04:01 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 05:27:22PM +0530, bschanmu at redhat.com wrote:
>> From: Babu Shanmugam <bschanmu at redhat.com>
>>
>> Openstack compute manager uses FQDN to check for the hypervisors to
>> which the ports are bound.
>>
>> Without this fix, no instances can be launched as the hypervisor's hostname
>> mismatches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Babu Shanmugam <bschanmu at redhat.com>
> Can you document in vswitch.xml that this is a fully qualified domain
> name, and that before OVS 2.7 it was not fully qualified?  (Or, before
> 2.6.2, if you want it backported?)

Sure, Ben

> Also, there is some possibility that some installations relied on this
> being non-fully-qualified, and if we get bug reports about that change
> then we'd probably have to revert it.

I understand.

> Thanks,
>
> Ben.



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