On December 17, 2014 5:08:03 PM Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
Tim Tassonis wrote: > Hi all > > I've got a question regarding the > > /lib/udev/init-net-rules.sh > > script, that is supposed to generate entries in > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > >>From line 15 to 20, there are the following entries: > > VENDORS_IGNORED['52:54:00:']="kvm" > VENDORS_IGNORED['00:0c:29:']="vmware" > VENDORS_IGNORED['00:50:56:']="vmware" > VENDORS_IGNORED['00:15:5d:']="hyper-v" > VENDORS_IGNORED['00:00:00:']="invalid" > > As my lfs system is actually a qemu virtual machine with a mac addess > starting with 52:54:00:, this results in no rule being generated for my > eth0. When I disable the line, the rule gets generated and all is well. > > I fail to see the rationale for not generating an udev rule for virtual > network cards, what is the reason for that? The MAC address in virtual systems is not always the same at every boot instance. -- Bruce --
Ok, didn't know that. With qemu, I always specify a unique addres per vm and I thought on vmware, that's the default behaviour as well, but certainly, there a ton of other setups where this isn't nevessarily the case.
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