From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Lin Ma <lma@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add mac address collision checking for device_add & pci_add
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:26:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A0DCE8.3080204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121112111828.GL19606@redhat.com>
Il 12/11/2012 12:18, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
>> > QEMU doesn't check if there are mac collisions when adding nics.
>> > It causes mac address collisions in guest if adding the nics which
>> > include existing physical address.
>> > This patch fixes the issue.
> I understand the issue, but are there not use cases where it is
> reasonable to have multiple NICs with the same MAC address ? To
> me this kind of policy enforcement belongs at a higher level in
> the mgmt stack.
I agree.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 11:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add mac address collision checking for device_add & pci_add Lin Ma
2012-11-12 11:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-11-12 11:26 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-11-12 11:49 ` Lin Ma
2012-11-12 12:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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