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

[Christy Perez]

Agree. Not reliable. I did forget that other people may be doing the
exact same thing at the exact same time, though, which makes it a bad
approach.

Regards,

- Christy

On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 15:51 -0200, Crístian Viana wrote:
> Am 22-01-2014 15:45, schrieb Christy Perez:
> > libvirt always adds the new interface to the end of the group. I did a
> > little experimenting to make sure. So, you could just parse the
> > interfaces and pull the MAC from the last one returned. It's not very
> > elegant, though.
> ... and not very reliable. There may be other operations happening at 
> the same time (like someone else creating another NIC), and the last 
> interface returned may have been created by other user. It's a web app, 
> we should expect simultaneous access.
> 
> But I don't have another solution for this...