[Libvir] PATCH: Support network interface model in Xen and QEMU driver

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:22:26AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:29:18AM -0400, Jim Paris wrote:
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This patch finishes off the work from Rich / Soren to support network
> > > interface model in both Xen and QEMU drivers, and adds test cases for
> > > the new syntax
> > 
> > I still think our consensus from when I posted this patch last year
> > (<nic model=...>) makes more sense ... but getting any form of this
> > patch upstream sounds good to me.
> 
>   I'm fine with the patch.
> 
>   Concerning this detail of the syntax, we already know at that point
> that it's about a nic since we are in an <interface> description,
> so it's a bit redundant. Also it's the first time we introduce XML
> to describe a specific model of hardware (so far we managed to avoid
> this, from a virtualization POV it's more of a problem than a feature
> in my opinion), the advantage of
>    <model type='....'/>
> to me is that we could reuse exactly the same construct each time we
> want to specify the hardware model of an emulated device, the device type
> being already defined by the englobing element (disk/input/graphic/serial/...)
>   Since we are introducing new syntax, making it as generic as possible
> sounds better to me,

And Ubuntu have already shipped a product with a patch using this syntax 
applied, so we can't reasonably change it.

Dan.
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