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From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim@redhat.com> To: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske@mittwald.de>, users@ovirt.org, "Moti Asayag" <masayag@redhat.com>, "Mike Kolesnik" <mkolesni@redhat.com>, "Lior Vernia" <lvernia@redhat.com> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:19:38 PM Subject: Re: [Users] VM MAC-Ranges and setting custom MACs via API
On 01/03/2014 04:34 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
Hi,
I got some questions regarding the MAC-Range in the engine and how to utilize the set custom mac feature via API:
We want to set a custom MAC per VM via REST-API (JSON) The RSDL tells me, that this should be possible in general.
However, I have two questions:
Must the specified custom MAC be within the range defined in engine?
Your assumption is correct, you can provide either a mac address from the pool or other.
I suppose not, as this range should just be a pool to take MACs from when engine itself acquires one for a vm. Also some users in IRC could use imported vms with custom macs, but using REST might yield different results?
Does this work via JSON in ovirt-engine 3.3.2 ?
I just learned that the JSON implementation is not feature complete until 3.4. so I wonder if I can use JSON instead of XML to achieve this.
I can not wait for the 3.4. release anyway.
We had so far no problem with using JSON beside a nasty Cloud-Init (documentation)bug (BZ 1045484) and we don't want to rewrite all our code to generate XML instead of JSON if we can avoid it.
iiuc, with moving to support json, some property name changes will happen (juan can provide more details). as for the mac question - moti/mike/lior?