PSARC 2009/137 Bandwidth Limit for Virtual Interface

[James Carlson]

Max Zhen writes:
> > In discussion with Max, this was in fact the plan, this is perhaps not
> > clear in the case. There will be no --rate option (I'm sure Max will
> > confirm).
> >   
> Exactly.  There will be no --rate option for virt-install(1M).  Users 
> will be forced to use this new syntax, if they want to set bandwidth to 
> the virtual interface.
> I listed '--rate' to show the mess we can have, if we take that 
> approach.  This is just for people to understand why we take this effort 
> to make the new style.  Sorry for any confusion.

Then I guess my question is why "--rate" is a bad thing for
virt-install but it's a good thing for virsh.

Shouldn't there be some consistency here?

> > The XML is also an external standard and is therefore Committed. In many
> > cases it's the only way to interrogate the domain config sadly.
> >   
> Although it is not necessary, user can also manually create a XML file 
> to describe the configuration for a virtual interface and pass that file 
> to virsh to add the interface to the domU.
> 
> Since we'll push the change to upstream later, these XML elements will 
> become part of the standard format in the future eventually.  So, 
> 'committed' level is more appropriate in this case.

OK.

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