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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x
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From: Andreas F=E4rber <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:58:28 +0100

> =

> Am 05.02.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Ian Jackson:
> =

> > I don't believe that 10.0.2.0/24 was chosen randomly :-).  It would=
 be
> > better for qemu's default range to be a randomly chosen one.
> =

> Please don't randomly choose a default subnet; knowing that QEMU uses=
  =

> 10.0.2.x allows to adapt to this. If however QEMU starts randomly  =

> assigning addresses we will also get random conflicts.
> =

> Please stick with a default like the current and simply make it  =

> statically configurable.

I think that the suggestion is that qemu picks, one time, a new
default.  This new default would be selected at random, and would be
the same on all new versions of qemu.

I don't think that the suggestion is to pick a random address every
time qemu starts.

Warner