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

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

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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