I don't know if nic hotplug works on windows. Certainly a reboot would. Anyone with a windows VM want to try adding a nic manually to a running VM?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com> wrote: > Thank you Marcus - > > Regarding documentation, if we can provide at least a high level blurb on > one or two sample OS-es, it would be great > Regarding OS support, just wanted to check if it is possible on Windows OS > also? > > Hari > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:03 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Chiradeep Vittal; Brian Angus > Subject: Re: Review Request: API commands to add or remove NIC from a VM > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com > >wrote: > > I think you're right on #1, that if you create a VM via API you can add > multiple nics to the same network so long as you're not using a VPC. I > don't know for sure off the top of my head though > > > > 2. Earlier, Marcus had stated that " It doesn't strictly require a > > reboot, but it does require that you apply a network config. The nic > > will hot plug but you either have to reboot or manually trigger a dhcp > > query " - wish to reconfirm this to be the case - also, can you please > > provide a short note on how to do this, so we can add it to the > documentation? > > > > We could give some basic examples, but it's largely going to come down to > specific OS, for example with linux, it could change by distribution based > on the udev rules, the config file locations, dhcp client differences, etc. > It would be up to the admin of the VM guest to know how to set up a > network card on their guest OS. > > > > 3. Can you please confirm this is possible for any OS (windows/Linux)? > > > > Worst case is that the OS doesn't recognize the new NIC without a reboot. > So either you make them power the VM off always before adding a NIC, or > let them try to add the NIC and they can reboot if the OS doesn't support > it. > > > > 4. is there any UI component developed for this? > > > > No, I think there is a team who specializes in this. I was thinking the > other day that the UI will likely always lag behind the API in features, > because new features won't get time to be implemented in UI on each release. >
