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[Qemu-devel] Alternative mac address setting
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Benoît Canet |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] Alternative mac address setting |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:36:49 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hello,
I want to implement an alternative mac address setting to allow a guest using
virtio-net to change it's mac address by itself.
The main use case is high availability setups where a slave machine take the
lead when the master is failing. (heartbeat)
The thing that an alternate mac address setting would allow to do is to make
the switch _without_ requiring a gratuitous arp.
The slave guest would simply take the master guest mac address and resume
operations.
I initially though about implementing a list of alternate mac address but I fear
that in this context lists are frowed upon.
Do you have any advice on how to implement this feature ?
Should I support old net device declaration ?
What is the strict minimum changes that would need to be done to implement the
feature ?
Best regards
Benoît
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