On Tuesday, 20.10.2015 at 16:07, Antti Kantee wrote: > >The above does depend on md5sum, and I seem to recall discussing that > >md5sum is not universally available? > > Don't use non-standard md5sum then, use something standard like od -- > /dev/urandom is already random so you don't need to hash it.
Okay, will do. > Besides, isn't it "macaddr", not "mac"? Yes. > >Motivation for the change is that without it each qemu/kvm unikernel gets > >the exact same MAC and is thus unusable in bridged configurations. Also, > >it's consistent with the behaviour of "rumprun xen". > > It's easy to argue that neither is the correct default, especially if you > can't override it. That's just another argument against the rumprun launch > tool. Sure, but that's a different argument. :)
