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Awesome, never really played with Gentoo before, eager to give it a spin.

On Monday, June 22, 2015, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 06/23/2015 12:17 AM, Matthew Thode wrote:
> > On 06/11/2015 10:12 AM, Matthew Thode wrote:
> >> On 06/11/2015 04:11 AM, Eren Türkay wrote:
> >>> On 10-06-2015 02:14, George Shuklin wrote:
> >>>> Aw. Don't discriminate DHCP. It has many nice features (for example,
> if you add
> >>>> new interface to existing VM, cloud-init with static config will
> ignore it, but
> >>>> DHCP will works like magic).
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know how it works in Gentoo, but in Debian 'allow-hotplug'
> for all
> >>>> interfaces but eth0 allows to support most of the future interfaces.
> Same for
> >>>> CentOS - you can add few eth scripts to network configuration and
> they will
> >>>> works as soon as new interface appears.
> >>>
> >>> I want to add to this comment. I believe this hot-plug feature for
> ethernet
> >>> devices is essential in the cloud environment. Short time ago I needed
> to move
> >>> port from one instance to another while keeping the internal IP
> address same. I
> >>> achieved it by removing a port from the old instance, re-creating the
> port with
> >>> the same ip address, and pluging it to the new instance.
> >>>
> >>> The downtime was minimal as the instance supported hot-plug (ubuntu
> 14.04) and
> >>> the ip addresses were distributed using DHCP. When the interface was
> >>> re-plugged, dhclient requested an ip address and the DHCP server gave
> the
> >>> internal address of the port which I specified.
> >>>
> >>> So, it would be really great if you can support hot-plugging for
> ethernet
> >>> devices and DHCP. I find them very useful and I believe many people
> would
> >>> expect this feature from Gentoo image.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >> ya, it's probably the number one thing I want to see as well and the
> >> next thing I'm working on.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > ok, updated the images.  Did the following.
> >
> > 1. Allowed for any interface to get auto addressed (dhcpcd handles that
> > actually, no net configs needed).
> >
> > 2. The rootfs resizes on first boot now.
> >
> > 3. image size is reduced.
> >
> > 4. more profiles are now available.
> >
> > Notes...  DIB is on my todo, but should be very minor, since I'm
> > generating more or less official openstack stage4 guest tarballs
> > already.  Also, getting these images themselves official (within gentoo)
> > is next and kinda hard if only because it needs to be totally within
> > catalyst.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> forgot the link, here it is.
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/amd64/openstack/
>
> --
> -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>
>
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