[ovirt-users] Guest PXE boot with 2 NICs : MAC order

[Nicolas Ecarnot]

Hi Lior,

Le 31/03/2015 12:55, Lior Vernia a écrit :
> Indeed, if you're using oVirt 3.4 and up, and you supply all the NICs
> whenever you create the VM (not afterwards - as part of the new VM
> dialog), the NICs should receive MAC addresses according to their
> ordering by names, e.g. nic1 will always get a lower MAC address than
> nic2. For a newly-created VM this should guarantee that nic1 will indeed
> end up the first NIC inside the guest OS and be used by PXE.

In the BZ I provided above, I explain that my tests are showing that 
this is not true : the nics are not yet sorted according to their MAC 
nor their names.

I'm using 3.5.1

>
> If this is something you do a lot, then I'd suggest creating a new
> template as such and create VMs from that.

I know that could be a way, but this is not our strategy, as we prefer 
using kickstart and we have so many different setups that factorisation 
is not possible.

>
> On 31/03/15 11:23, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
>> Le 31/03/2015 09:21, Sven Kieske a écrit :
>>> You should file an RFE on bugzilla for this
>>> kind of stuff and maybe raise awareness during
>>> the weekly meeting on irc.
>>>
>>> this increases the chance of an implementation
>>> taking place dramatically ;)
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> I found and append this :
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045022
>>


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Nicolas Ecarnot