> In the host side of tap device the mac address seems to be random
> but it seems like in guest side the mac address is derived from
> first given ip-address 

Correct.

> and when using dhcp it's always 0.0.0.0 which
> causes it to be fe:fd:00:00:00:00. The problem is that I can't seem
> to be able to change the mac address to different when using dhcp. 

When you're DHCP-ing, you need to provide a MAC on the command line
because that's the only way that the DHCP server can identify the
client.


> Thanks, that helped me. Interesting thing is that after giving also
> the mac address I could alse change it in guest. Could there be a
> bug related to mac address? 

More details?  I just checked, and I have no problem changing the MAC.

                                Jeff

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