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 > > -- > Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ > Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ > veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ > -- ------------------------------------- Nikola CIPRICH LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. 28. rijna 168, 709 01 Ostrava tel.: +420 596 603 142 fax: +420 596 621 273 mobil: +420 777 093 799 www.linuxbox.cz mobil servis: +420 737 238 656 email servis: servis@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------- -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list