Mitch, Bugzilla wouldn't let me add you to the CC, so FYI... Thanks,
Alex On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 21:29 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55421 > > > Alex Williamson <[email protected]> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |[email protected], > | |[email protected] > > > > > --- Comment #4 from Alex Williamson <[email protected]> 2013-03-21 > 21:29:09 --- > Further bisected to: > > commit 5ac6f91d39e0884813dc010e14552143cd1d0d8b > Author: Mitch A Williams <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Jan 18 08:57:20 2013 +0000 > > igb: Don't give VFs random MAC addresses > > If the user has not assigned a MAC address to a VM, then don't give it a > random one. Instead, just give it zeros and let it figure out what to do > with them. > > Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <[email protected]> > CC: Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]> > CC: Stefan Assmann <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Aaron Brown <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Stefan Assmann <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> > > So, for whatever reason we no longer assign a random MAC address when using > the > device in a VM (but we do still use one if attached to igbvf in the host). I > expect we'll eventually see this on all the Intel SR-IOV NICs. The solution > is > to use the ip command to assign the VF a valid MAC address prior to using it > with KVM. I'll let those who made the change defend it further if they wish. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
