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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:25:28 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:15:41PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:13:18AM +0300, Pavel Vasilyev wrote:
> > + if (strstr(p, "macrandom")) {
>
> I take this means -net macaddr=macrandom will give the random
> macaddr after this patch? please document this magic in
> qemu-doc.texi and --help.
Generating a random MAC address everytime you boot a guest seems like
a very odd thing todo. MAC addresses should be randomly generated
once, and then fixed for the duration of existance of that guest,
across reboots.If you generate a random MAC on every boot, the OS will
think its NIC has been removed, and a new one added on every boot.
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option, Pavel Vasilyev, 2009/01/26
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Replace strcmp() by strncmp(), Pavel Vasilyev, 2009/01/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option, malc, 2009/01/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option, Kevin Wolf, 2009/01/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option, Riku Voipio, 2009/01/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option, Paul Brook, 2009/01/27