[CentOS-devel] Bridge Networking for Xen in Box proposal

[Fabian Arrotin]

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On 26/05/15 12:49, Gautam Malu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing xen in box gsoc project.
> 
> The aim of the project is to have custom installer ISO which
> delivers xen stack running on c7 along with necessary bridge
> networking configuration.
> 
> But I am getting confused over how to package bridge networking 
> settings, so that I can deliver that during installation itself. I
> can use bridge-utils and package ifcfg-* files as differnet
> package. But for that I need to have the network information like
> how many NIC are present in the system, and which NIC is active is
> it eth0 or wlan0.
> 
> I can probably write a script to set up bridge networking, which
> can be used to start bridge networking and stop, and ship that
> script as a package.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Best regards, Gautam Malu

I'd *not* package that as .rpm package[s], as it's more configuration
management.
If you need to have a look at custom iso/installer for that Xen
variant, why not do that at the anaconda level (which has all the
required info, like network interfaces being available/active , etc
..) and patch anaconda at "runtime" with an updates.img file ?

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Fabian Arrotin
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