Re: Mac-Address uniqueness

Axel Kittenberger
2007-06-01T10:19:44Z

> That tends to consume dhcp leases quickly, if you start guests often (as
> I do). Also, some distributions use the mac address as a key for naming
> interfaces; if it changes, the guest gets confused
>

Couldn't we do some sort of hash on the image path+filename? So same
image starts always with same MAC, different images -> different mac
adresses. I guess I am supposed to post this suggestion on the qemu
mailinglist. ;-)

- Axel

PS: Other topic, I still wonder how a guest can bevahe totally different
on networking (unable to use network) when macaddr is set by kvm
parameters? For me this sounds like a bug, not?