Description of problem: Currently Node is creating a bridge by default for it's primary nic. Sometimes this is not needed, therefor Node should also be able to do a simple net setup by just using a NIC directly. Feature page: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Node/Bridgeless_Networking
This will introduce a new configuration item (tbd) to choose the topology to be configured.
An update: There are now patches in gerrit which introduce the necessary changes. With those patches a basic installation works. A few glitches, reminders for myself: * Look at biosdevname * bootif and bootproto are lost after reboot after install * topology=direct isn't handled correctly * ui doesn't get all necessary infos (ip, ...) The patches are a major rewrite of the net backend and the auto-installer part.
(In reply to Fabian Deutsch from comment #2)ks. > A few glitches, reminders for myself: > * Look at biosdevname bisodevname was nat called in any code segment that I touched. > * bootif and bootproto are lost after reboot after install That was the default case. I modified the logic to keep BOOTIF. The reason is to keep the information what bootif the user selected during ai > * topology=direct isn't handled correctly Just a bug. Fixed. > * ui doesn't get all necessary infos (ip, ...) Was related to the missing BOOTIF entry
The fix for this patch has been merged and is present in the released ovirt-node-3.0.0.