Yes, I agree with you that we should make use of the Providers supplied functions, like DefineSystem() as much possible. I had tried supplying the networkpoolname/bridgename in the VirtXML, and it works fine till then to get an XML which contains invalid networkpool/bridgename. But when we call cim_define() we dont make use of the XML generated till then. In cim_define() we make use of VSSD, various RASD and I did not find a relevant field in NetRASD which could be used for supplying the invalid name info.
I tried using ElementName, but was not much help. Can you suggest how or which of the VSSD, RASD fields could be used to supply the networkpool/birdge name.
The get_nasd_class() function takes a network name. So, the __init__ for the VirtCIM class should take a network name and pass this to the get_nasd_class() function. When I replied yesterday, I thought __init__ was already taking the network name as an argument. Sorry for the confusion there. -- Kaitlin Rupert IBM Linux Technology Center kaitlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com