[libvirt] libvirt passes wrong MAC address to KVM

[Nikola Ciprich]

Hi Daniel,
thanks for reply. Well, virsh reports already WRONG address.
I'll try other network types and some more debugging tomorrow and report further.
cheers
nik

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:09:03PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Hum, I can't really reproduce this. I used a definition like:
> 
>     <interface type='network'>
>       <mac address='00:16:3e:0d:24:00'/>
>       <source network='default'/>
>       <target dev='vnet0'/>
>     </interface>
> 
> since i don't have bridging set. When starting the guest with 0.4.2 I see
> 
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -monitor pty -boot c -hda /virt/test-mac.img -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:0d:24:00,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=14,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us
> 
> when starting with 0.4.3 I see
> 
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name test-mac -monitor pty -boot c -drive file=/virt/test-mac.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive file=,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:0d:24:00,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=13,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial none -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us
> 
> but in both cases the MAC parsing looks correct and properly provided down
> to qemu-kvm . Could you double check with virsh directly (though i don't see
> how python could scramble just that part of the XML description) using
> virsh dumpxml and virsh create ...
> Also testing with a network type of setting may help finding what is happening
> precisely here
> 
>   thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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