Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC]: help, how to get the mac after create a VM interface.

On 01/20/2014 11:34 AM, Sheldon wrote: > when I create a interface, There is no mac attribute in the xml. > After create successfully, libvirt will allocate a mac. > The problem is that, How can I get the mac. > > Should the CREATE method always needs to return an interface info? > > Here is some of create code. > > def vmifaces_create(self, vm, params): > dom = self._get_vm(vm) > xml = """ > <interface type='network'> > <source network='default'/> > </interface> > """ > > dom.attachDeviceFlags(xml, > libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT) > > # here I need to return the mac > return ???? > > > > The libvirt will create a xml like the follow? The problem is that > the a vm may have several interfaces. > xml = """ > <interface type='network'> > <mac address='52:54:00:2a:53:8f'/> > <source network='default'/> > <model type='rtl8139'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' > function='0x0'/> > </interface> > """ > > We can generate the mac and pass it to libvirt: >>> import virtinst.util >>> print virtinst.util.randomMAC() 00:16:3e:fd:b4:3a

I don't if libvirt requires a mac starting with "52:52:00" Maybe it is used to avoid generating duplicated mac addresses. _______________________________________________ Kimchi-devel mailing list Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel