[Engine-devel] Report vNic Implementation Details

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/22/2012 05:39 PM, Moti Asayag wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 05:36 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>> On 11/21/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
>>>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:36:58 PM
>>>> Subject: [Engine-devel] Report  vNic Implementation Details
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This is a proposal for reporting the vNic implementation details as
>>>> reported by the guest agent per each vNic.
>>>>
>>>> Please review the wiki and add your comments.
>>>
>>> While we're making the change is there anything else we'd want to
>>> report - MTU, MAC (since a user might try to override), etc ?
>>
>> Do we support change of MAC from within the VM? Is it even working?
>> Y.
>>
>
> Shouldn't work if the nwfilter rules are enabled (which are by default)

true, but not relevant in this discussion, as changing mac means no 
external traffic.
doesn't mean it is not what the guest reports via the guest agent.
so guest can report ip per mac from guest agent regardless of vnic mac 
address.