[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

[Daniel Pocock]

On 21/03/13 02:47, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 23:32 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>   
>> Should the script be using the ovs-vsctl command instead of brctl?
>>     
> As a general rule one should be using the ovs tools directly wherever
> possible and not the brctl compat layer.
>
>   
>>  Or
>> have I misconfigured something and the wrong script is being run? 
>>     
> This is something which AFAIR differs between upstream Xen and XCP. With
> upstream Xen we disable the qemu script explicitly and expect the xen
> vif hotplug scripts (which handle Xen tap devices too) to do the job,
> that is the scripts under /etc/xen/scripts/vif-foo (for foo in bridge,
> openvswitch etc)
>   
As you explained earlier, my dom0 had both a tap20.0 and a vif20.0 for
the HVM domU

I noticed that the vif20.0 interface was successfully added to the
bridge during VM creation, presumably the script responsible for that
used the ovs command instead of brctl

While I could add some permanent hack to the script I modified above,
and this might be important to include in the wheezy release, I don't
want to second-guess the strategic way of sorting this out, would you
know who is maintaining this part of XCP and how we can get some
direction on this?