Re: [Users] VM MAC-Ranges and setting custom MACs via API
----- Original Message -----
From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
To: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>, users(a)ovirt.org, "Moti
Asayag" <masayag(a)redhat.com>, "Mike Kolesnik"
<mkolesni(a)redhat.com>, "Lior Vernia" <lvernia(a)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?