On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:42:12PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > The MAC addresses with 00:50:56 prefix are split into several ranges: > > 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3f:ff:ff 'static' range (manually assigned) > 00:50:56:80:00:00 - 00:50:56:bf:ff:ff 'vpx' range (assigned by a VI Client) > > Erroneously the 'vpx' range was assumed to be larger and to occupy the > remaining addresses of the 00:50:56 prefix that are not part of the 'static' > range. > > 00:50:56 was used as prefix for generated MAC addresses, this is not possible > anymore, because there are gaps in the allowed ranges. Therefore, change the > prefix to 00:0c:29 which is the prefix for auto generated MAC addresses > anyway. > > Allow arbitrary MAC addresses to be used and set the checkMACAddress VMX > option > to false in case the MAC address doesn't fall into any predefined range. > > * docs/drvesx.html.in: update website accordingly > * src/esx/esx_driver.c: set the auto generation prefix to 00:0c:29 > * src/esx/esx_vmx.c: fix MAC address range handling and allow arbitrary MAC > addresses > * tests/vmx2xml*, tests/xml2vmx*: add some basic MAC address range tests
ACK, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ dan...@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
