Re: [Qemu-devel] patch: allow defining MAC address etc

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:36, jamal wrote:
> 
>>This attached patch is intended for allowing automated clever scripting
>>for networking (tuntap only). Please read and apply if possible.
>>
>>It does the following:
>>a) allow for specifying the guest netdevice interface MAC address
>>(in addition to keeping the old functionality of specifying just
>>the first one and letting qemu decide what subsequent ones should be)
>>So now you can say something along the lines of:
>>"-nics 2 -macaddr0 00:11:a:0:2:19 -macaddr1 00:11:a:0:1:19"
>>We allow upto 6 such MAC addresses to be specified. Maybe theres
>>a more clever way to achieve this.
> 
> 
> Maybe a comma separated list of MAC addresses. e.g.
> "-nics 2 macaddr 00:11:a:0:2:19,00:11:a:0:1:19"

I propose:

-nics 2 -macaddr 00:11:a:0:2:19 -macaddr 00:11:a:0:1:19

For the future, I would like to change the networks options to have 
something like:

-net usernet,macaddr=00:11:a:0:2:19 -net tunfd=10,macaddr=00:11:a:0:1:19

to be consistent with the character devices.

Fabrice.