Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 11/13] libxl: set nic type to VIF by default

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 11/13] libxl: set nic type to VIF 
by default"):
> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:40 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
...
> > I'm a bit confused about all this, I confess.  What does xend do ?
> > 
> > ATM it seems that this change would mean that a guest config file
> > specified in the most obvious way wouldn't get an emulated nic at
> > all.  That can't be right, can it ?
> 
> It's confusingly named.
> 
> IOEMU -> emulated only on HVM, meaningless on PV.
> VIF   -> both emulated and PV (on HVM) or just PV (on PV)
> 
> So a default of "VIF" is what you normally want.

Oh!

Perhaps we could rename the enum values (and disrupt everyone's
patches) to fix this before we call the API stable.

Ian.

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