On 06/10/2011 05:40 AM, Dirk Herrendoerfer wrote: > there is a problem present in libvirt that when a PASSTHROUGH mode > DIRECT NIC connection is made the MAC address of the NIC is not > automatically set and reset to the configured VM MAC and back again. > > The attached patch fixes this problem by setting and resetting the MAC > while remembering the previous setting while the VM is running. > This also works if libvirtd is restarted while the VM is running. > > The storing of the previous MAC address is done in a link ( currently in /tmp, > but should probably go into /var/run somewhere ). /tmp is probably not the best place; we already have a hierarchy under /var/run/libvirt/ and this information should live somewhere in that hierarchy. Meanwhile, this information is useful in the commit message itself, rather than in a cover letter... -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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