Re: Xen 4.3 development update RC2 imminent

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 20/05/13 12:16, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 12:09 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> I think long-term we probably want to sort out the "right" way to do
>> this -- ideally I think we'd like there to be a "config on next reboot"
>> that one could manipulate while the VM is running -- manually changing
>> such things as the number of vcpus or amount of memory, automatically
>> updating things like the cdrom and the mac address.
> We already have the manual version via "xl config-update", but that's
> really just a workaround for the cdrom/mac address issues.

Then is the problem:
1. The randomly generated mac is not being stored automatically in the 
config?
2. The mac is being clobbered when re-loading the config file on reboot?

If it's #1, it seems like it should be relatively straightforward to 
sort out.

  -George