[Users] MAC in use when importing/cloning a VM

[Alexandre Santos]

2013/2/6 Shahar Havivi <shaharh at redhat.com>:
> On 06.02.13 08:36, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
>> Le 05/02/2013 21:47, Itamar Heim a écrit :
>> >you should be able to import as 'new' which will re-create all
>> >uuid's/mac/etc.
>> >otherwise, just edit the ovf.
>> >cc-ing moti to consider something better going forward
>>
>> Thank you to Shahar for your advice about the MAC address check.
>> I tried that, restarted the engine, but i failed the same.
> That should work..., if not its a bug
>>
>> I also tried Itamar's advice but here is what's happening:
>> - In the import windows, I select the VM, the system finds out the
>> destination cluster and storage.
>> - I then chekc the option "Clone All VMs" : the "suffix" option
>> appears, pre-filled with "_Copy".
>> - I already used it and it was working fine. This time, when
>> validating with "OK", the "Suffix" field gets colored into yellow
>> and I can not validate.
>> - I tried to change its content to something else but it has no effect.
>> - Of course, I already spent some times grepping the logs file
>> searching for the MAC, but did not find anything obvious.
>> - When the yellow border appears, nothing special is showing in the logs.
>>
>> So here, oVirt is trying to tell me something, but what?
> This is probably UI validation that failed to present the text.
> Try to rename the xxx_Copy to xxx_Copy2 or any other name that is not in use.
>>
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>> Nicolas Ecarnot
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Hi,
I'm getting also this "error" about duplicate MAC. I quoted error
because I searched for this MAC on all my VMs and did not find another
MAC being the same. What I've seen is that if the original MAC ends
with :01, the new one (clone) has a MAC that ends with :02.
I then start this new cloned VM and it works fine - after changing the
MAC value on the network config files on the VM's SO.

Alex