On Sun, 2005-21-08 at 03:22 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2005 02:56, jamal wrote:
> > i could do this; macaddr is already being used to imply the start > > macaddr. Does macaddrs sound better? > > Part of the reason I suggested this was because it is an extension of the > existing option. A user can either specifies a single address and have qemu > assign sequential addresses (the current behaviour), or they can specify a > list of addresses, one for each NIC. > it may be easier parsing to avoid having optional fields. Is there any other parameter that has optional fields? > Your script should be able to get all the information it needs from the MAC > address. You can either hardcode addresses or do pattern matching. > The guest MAC address is arbitrary, so you can choose whatever numbering is > convenient. For example you could use the last digit of the address to > encode your ID field. The only problem is that would tie the two things (MAC + ID) together. i.e it would not be possible to just pass the ids without specifying macs. Note the Ids syntax would also be comma separated. cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
