Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random MAC addresses

2017-02-22 Thread Pietro Stäheli
Hi Ian > I think what you are doing is a bit odd. I would almost expect the > two identically named VMs to be failover for each other or something. > (If they share a hostname, do they share IPv6 and IPv4 addresses?) > Anyway, I'll assume you have a good reason... It was more of an accident whil

Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random MAC addresses

2017-02-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Ian, thanks for your comments. Ian Jackson wrote: > Pietro Staeheli writes ("Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random > MAC addresses"): > > xen-create-image derives its generated MAC addresses from the > > hostname, IP address configuration and d

Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random MAC addresses

2017-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Pietro Staeheli writes ("Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random MAC addresses"): > xen-create-image derives its generated MAC addresses from the hostname, IP > address configuration and distribution of the domU to be installed (see: sub > generateMACAddress)

Bug#855703: xen-create-image: doesn't create random MAC addresses

2017-02-21 Thread Pietro Staeheli
Package: xen-tools Version: 4.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch xen-create-image derives its generated MAC addresses from the hostname, IP address configuration and distribution of the domU to be installed (see: sub generateMACAddress). This behavior leads to a MAC address collisions when multip