[ovirt-users] nic order

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet at abes.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I added a new nic on all my vms, but the MAC address pool was too small. So
> I extended it from 00:1a:4a:22:1f:00 to 00:1a:4a:22:1f:ff =>
> 00:1a:4a:22:1e:00 to 00:1a:4a:22:1f:ff.
>
> It was okay but when rebooting some vms, nics are interverted and I couldn't
> join my vm on ip!
>
> I noticed nics were ordered now from the smallest MAC address to the
> greatest one, so the last plugged nic from the new pool was now the first in
> the vm, and all nics were moved at the bottom.
>
> Is it an expected behaviour?

No. As far as I recall, and Yevgeny can add more details, reordering
of vNICs happens only when allocating multiple nics in the initial
definition of a VM; but not on plugging of a nic to an existing VM.

Which version of ovirt-engine do you use?