Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option

[Paul Brook]

> +        if (strstr(p, "macrandom")) {

I'm not convinced this is a useful feature.

We already allow the user to specify a mac address, so this feature can be 
trivially implemented (and better supported) by a management app or simple 
shell script.

In addition to the issues other people have raised, there's no validation that 
the random value is actually a valid mac address, and no conflict resolution 
to avoid duplicate addresses when multiple NICs are present.

Paul