Bug 183289

Summary:	Missing options from XMLDesc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Diwaker Gupta <diwaker.lists>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	xen-maint
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Description Diwaker Gupta 2006-02-27 22:48:17 UTC

Description of problem:

XMLDesc() does not support several attributes that are currently supported by
'xm create'. People who wish to move to libvirt would except a one to one
mapping. Some of the important things missing:

o MAC address (perhaps its checked in the repository, I haven't seen it yet though)
o IP address
o config file (perhaps not that important)
o arbitrary options for processing through the config file
o path to bootloader
o builder used
o acpi/pae/apic
o cpu_weight (not used currently, but potentially useful later)
o gateway, netmask, dhcp
o nfs_root, nfs_server

For details, see 'xm create -h'

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2006-08-23 13:05:17 UTC

libvirt version 0.1.4 addressing the following attributes detailed:

 * MAC address         (<mac> element within an <interface> element)
 * path to bootloader  (<bootloader> element)
 * builder used        (<loader> element within <os>)
 * apci/pae/apic       (<features> element, and <acpi>, <apic>, <pae> flags within)

Wrt to the rest:

 * IP address  -  something to be configured within the guest, either statically
or via DHCP
 * arbitrary options  - libvirt is only going to expose options which are
supportable long term. In addition options must be reasonably hypervisor
agnostic, so we're unable to expose arbitrary Xend config options directly.
 * cpu_weight  - some way of expressing schedular tunables is desirable & yet to
be addressed i nlibvirt
 * gateway, netmask, dhcp - these are all things  which should be configured
within the guest OS
 * nfs_root, nfs_server - not clear that these belong as Xen config params long
term - should already be possible to configure such things in elsewhere (eg with
bootloader command line args)

Comment 2 Daniel Veillard 2007-03-27 13:52:31 UTC

At 2.0.1, the new networking support should allow the remaining needs 
for networking configurability (beyond what xm create allows).
Cpu weight is supported in libvirt API

W.r.t. nfs_root, nfs_server sa Dan pointed out they don't really
need to be supported directly it's more a bootloader question.

And further arbitrary options as stated will only be considered on a
case by case basis depending on their genericity and relevenace to 
users needs.

At this point I think we can close this as RAWHIDE, the current state
is very close to the original whish list.

Daniel