On 01.02.2016 10:14, Andrei Perietanu wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> wrote:
On 29.01.2016 11:24, Andrei Perietanu wrote:
Hi all,
I am using libvirt to manage VM on my system; after creating a VM (default no NICs are present in the configuration) you can add any number of interfaces to it (as long as they exist on the host). To do that, I edit the configuration xlm:
vmXml = self.domain.XMLDesc() root = ET.fromstring(vmXml) devices = root.find('./devices')
intf = ET.SubElement(devices,'interface') intf.set('type', 'bridge') src = ET.SubElement(intf,'source') src.set('bridge', bIntf) model = ET.SubElement(intf,'model') model.set('type', 'e1000')
xml = ET.tostring(root) self.conn.defineXML(xml)
Now the problem I have is that the MAC addresses are auto-generated and because of this there is no way to predict which interface number the newly added interface will map to, on the VM. Ideally, the first added interface is mapped to eth0/0, the second one eth0/1...etc. Since the mappings depend on the MAC addresses I figured that is the part I need to have control over.
Any ideas?
You can provide mac address too. Only if none was given in the XML libvirt makes up one.
Michal
Does libvirt offer a way to generate MAC addresses before adding them to the XML? I may have to generate tens of them and I would not want to reinvent the wheel writing my own MAC address generator.
Unfortunately no, but the generator is really simple: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/util/virmacaddr.c;h=612a4... Michal