Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v8 3/7] Edit some APIs in
TestSupport.pm for nested test"):
> On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 13:33 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > It seems to be copying information from runvars into the in-memory
> > data structure for host properties. But host properties are (by
> > definition) matters of (fixed) configuration, not runtime definition.
>
> Remember that here the "host" is actual an L1 virtual machine, whose IP
> is not fixed (since it mac address isn't).
Indeed.
> I don't know if that affects your opinion at all?
No, it doesn't. I agree that the IP address should be dynamically
figured out, and passing it through a runvar is fine.
I'm only objecting to the involvement of the host property machinery.
Thanks,
Ian.
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