On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 09:44:21AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:20:19 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > But the virtio spec doesn't allow setting the MAC... > > > I'm probably just lost in the conversation but there's hypervisor side > > > and there is user/VM side, each of them already has an interface to set > > > the MAC. The MAC doesn't matter, but I want to make sure my mental model > > > matches reality in case we start duplicating too much.. > > > > An obvious part of provisioning is specifying the config space > > of the device. > > Agreed, that part is obvious. > Please go ahead, I don't really care and you clearly don't have time > to explain. Thanks! Just in case Cindy who is working on it is also confused, here is what I meant: - an interface to provision a device, including its config space, makes sense to me - default mac address is part of config space, and would thus be covered - note how this is different from ability to tweak the mac of an existing device -- MST