Re: [DISCUSS] Block importing VMs without NIC

[Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>]

Henrique,
Thanks for bringing this up/
I think both disallowing and creating a default nic on importing are
acceptable behaviours. One could argue for either and operators will
complain either way (I know I probably would ;). I think we can make
disallowing the default and if we want to make this luxurious we can
implement a setting that creates a default NIC if one is missing.

€0,02


On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 8:30 AM Henrique Sato <he...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> As mentioned in PR #7859 [1], I'm opening this thread so we can discuss
> whether ACS should allow importing VMs without NIC.
>
> Currently, ACS allows importing VMs without a NIC. However, when creating
> new NICs for these VMs, it will not be possible to set them as default.
> When using a VM without a default NIC, the gateway is not configured and
> without a gateway the VM will not have external connection, which limits
> the user to the local network. Although PR #7859 [1] solves this situation,
> I do not think ACS should allow this kind of situation. In my opinion, this
> behavior should be removed, as ACS does not allow creating VMs without NIC
> nor removing the default NIC.
>
> What do you guys think about this scenario? Do you have other
> perspectives/opinions on this matter?
>
> Best regards,
> Henrique Sato (hsato03)
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/7859
>


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Daan