Re: [Qemu-devel] patch: allow defining MAC address etc

[Fabrice Bellard]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:36, jamal wrote:
>
> > This attached patch is intended for allowing automated clever scripting
> > for networking (tuntap only). Please read and apply if possible.
> >
> > It does the following:
> > a) allow for specifying the guest netdevice interface MAC address
> > (in addition to keeping the old functionality of specifying just
> > the first one and letting qemu decide what subsequent ones should be)
> > So now you can say something along the lines of:
> > "-nics 2 -macaddr0 00:11:a:0:2:19 -macaddr1 00:11:a:0:1:19"
> > We allow upto 6 such MAC addresses to be specified. Maybe theres
> > a more clever way to achieve this.
>
>
> Maybe a comma separated list of MAC addresses. e.g.
> "-nics 2 macaddr 00:11:a:0:2:19,00:11:a:0:1:19"

I propose:

-nics 2 -macaddr 00:11:a:0:2:19 -macaddr 00:11:a:0:1:19

For the future, I would like to change the networks options to have 
something like:

-net usernet,macaddr=00:11:a:0:2:19 -net tunfd=10,macaddr=00:11:a:0:1:19

to be consistent with the character devices.

Fabrice.