Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Allow per-host TFTP setup

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 14:50 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST] Allow per-host TFTP setup"):
> > I run osstest against machines which are in both the XenServer and
> > XenClient administrative domains, and hence which have different
> > TFTP servers, accessible locally via different NFS mounted paths.
> > 
> > Make it possible to specify various bits of TFTP path via
> > ~/.xen-osstest/config
> 
> As I said in person: this would be much better if instead the host
> property referred to a named TFTP scope/server.  Otherwise you have to
> set a whole bunch of host properties identically.
> 
> Something like:
>   * Replace references to $c{Tftp*} with a new indirection involving
>     $ho.  Perhaps just $ho->{Tftp}{*}.  (Involves formulaic patch made
>     with perl -i, perhaps.)
>   * In selecthost, look up a TftpScope host property and then
>     $c{TftpFoo_$scope} for each TftpFoo (except, I guess, when
>     $scope is "default" or something).
>   * In selectguest, copy a reference to the hosts's $ho->{Tftp}.
> 
> > +   my $tftpdiversion = get_host_property($ho, "TftpDiVersion", 
> > $c{TftpDiVersion});
> 
> This definitely shouldn't be a host property because it needs push
> gate version control.
> 

Ack. I'll put this on my todo list.

Thanks,
Ian.



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