[ovs-discuss] ovs-xapi-sync modifies external-ids for standalone tap

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:20:34AM -0700, Maru Newby wrote:
> I'm happy to report that my use-case is no longer relevant.  I
> incorrectly assumed that running the Quantum dhcp agent in dom0 was
> preferable to running in an unprivileged domain.  It still might
> make sense to avoid unnecessary modification of standalone tap
> ports, though.  Despite XAPI not supporting the addition of a
> standalone tap, it is possible to add one directly via ovs commands.

In general ovs-xapi-sync takes charge of iface-id, iface-status, and
so on in an XenServer/XCP environment.  I'd really rather figure out
what's appropriate for other use cases when one actually comes up.