Re: [xen-discuss] IPv4 configuration for Solaris guest domains

David Edmondson wrote:
> I'd like to enhance Solaris network configuration slightly to allow
> guest domain IPv4 details to be passed from the domain building
> control tools through to the relevant components in Solaris
> (svc:/network/physical and uts/common/fs/nfs/nfs_dlinet.c).
>
> Attached is a proposal, roughly in the form of a fasttrack.
I'm confused by your statement that the DHCP configuration support is 
only for diskless systems (and tied to OBP). The DHCP support in 
network/physical works for diskless systems - x86 and sparc.
Are you talking about diskless Xen domains using DHCP and NFS?

Is the proposal a short-term approach or something we should live with 
forever?
I personally think it makes sense to be able to convey the IP 
configuration to a domU using the standard DHCP protocol; for static 
configuration from the perspective of dom0 this means that the DHCP 
server runs in dom0 and serves up that static information to the domU. 
(To do that we need some intercept of the DHCP packets down in the 
vnic/gld layer, thus it can't be the short-term solution.)
   Erik