From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC address via set_config Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:14:45 +0000 Message-ID: <200901142214.46522.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <1231881829.9095.191.camel@bling> <20090114164155.GA6431@shareable.org> <496E61F0.8060605@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , kvm To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dlaor@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]:50301 "EHLO mail.codesourcery.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755234AbZANWPD (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:15:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <496E61F0.8060605@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > What I meant is that if we allow the guest to change his mac address, it > can deliberately > change it to other hosts/guests mac and thus create networking problems. > Although guest can always mangle packets, maybe it worth enforcing these > macs for the guest. This doesn't seem any different to real hardware that allows you to change the MAC address. Paul