MAC address access in vsphere

[Xavier Naveira]

Hi,

I have a feature suggestion that I think shouldn't be that hard to add 
(assumption that's probably wrong :) )

I'm using deltacloud with vsphere. regarding the network addresses it 
seems that only the public addresses field is used.

This field is populated with the mac address of the machine when the 
machine is started but doesn't get an ip address from a dhcp server.

As soon a dhcp server offers and ip address and the machine accepts it 
the mac address is replaced with the ip address in the public addresses 
field.

This is a problem because the macaddress information disappears from 
deltacloud and there is no way to retrieve it once the machine has 
gotten an ip address from dhcp.

Would it be possible to add a field/use the private addresses field to 
store the mac address permanently? How is this managed in the other drivers?

Thank you!

Xavier