Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net/net: Change the default mac address of nic

[Eric Blake]

On 10/14/2013 11:07 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> 
> 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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