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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic |
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:36:01 -0600 |
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On 10/14/2013 11:07 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
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> Is it reasonable to get a random mac address in your guest? I don't
> think so. It would no longer be possible to connect to a guest using
> ssh, restart that guest and connect again with ssh.
Agreed - libvirt ALWAYS passes a MAC to qemu, even if the user did not
specify a MAC to libvirt, precisely because the MAC must be reproducible
rather than random to avoid changing the guest ABI. I don't think this
patch is needed - it's up to management to use qemu correctly.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, Mike Qiu, 2013/10/14
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, Mike Qiu, 2013/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, mike, 2013/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, mike, 2013/10/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, mike, 2013/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/10/18