[ovirt-users] Modify the MacPoolRange : Former MACs?

[Moti Asayag]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
> To: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
> Cc: "Martin Mucha" <mmucha at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:18:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Modify the MacPoolRange : Former MACs?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
> > To: "Martin Mucha" <mmucha at redhat.com>
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:44:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Modify the MacPoolRange : Former MACs?
> > 
> > Le 10/09/2014 13:36, Martin Mucha a écrit :
> > > just to add one more comment: nothing changes for MACs allocated
> > > using previous MacPoolRange. After MacPoolRange change, they will be
> > > treated like user specified MAC addresses, which also don't have to
> > > be part of any range.
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > I'm asking about banning, because I witnessed that when (ovirt-shell)
> > provisionning a new VM and its nic with a MAC outside of the pool range,
> > the adding gets refused.
> 
> What is the rejection message ? Perhaps it is a mac address which is already
> in use by other vm ?
> 

Please note that currently the API doesn't support specifying network interfaces
at vm creation [1], only after the vm is created, the user can add/update/delete vm network
interfaces.

So could you explain the scenario which lead to the rejection ?

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999969

> > I still dare not changing it unless you swear and sign it with your
> > blood that this macpoolrange modification won't prevent me from running
> > my existing VMs.
> > 
> > >
> > > m.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas at ecarnot.net>, users at ovirt.org, "Lior
> > > Vernia" <lvernia at redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014
> > > 12:43:12 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Modify the MacPoolRange :
> > > Former MACs?
> > >
> > > On 09/10/2014 09:47 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I plan to extend the MacPoolRange.
> > >>
> > >> If I also completely change the pool, in a way that does not
> > >> implies the previous setting, will the manager ban all the previous
> > >> MACs, now outside the defined pool? (and stop the VMs?)
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >
> > > no, just affect future mac allocations.
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> > 
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