On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:44:28PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:32:28AM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:51:39PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 05:25:48AM -0500, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for this verbose description. > > > > > > > > > > I don't think using libguestfs is the solution for this. > > > > > > > > Yeah, it seems like a hack that would be quite hard to maintain for all > > > > supported guest operating systems. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fixing qemu to accept BIOS interface name at -net parameter is > > > > > preferable. I don't think we should expose the interface a PCI device > > > > > as it will have some drawbacks, but attempt to use the onboard > > > > > convention. > > > > > > > > I don't see a real use case for setting the bios name explicitly. After > > > > all, libvirt/vdsm/Engine is going to to allocate them according to their > > > > relative order. I'd be content with qemu providing a sane, reproducible, > > > > biosdevname for each nic. > > > > > > > > Michael, would it be difficult to have? > > > > > > > > > This is not a qemu issue. This is a biosdevname/VMware issue. > > > biodevname has this code: > > > > > > /* > > > Algorithm suggested by: > > > > > > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009458 > > > */ > > > > > > static int > > > running_in_virtual_machine (void) > > > { > > > u_int32_t eax=1U, ecx=0U; > > > > > > ecx = cpuid (eax, ecx); > > > if (ecx & 0x80000000U) > > > return 1; > > > return 0; > > > } > > > > > > So it just looks for a hypervisor. > > > > > > It should look at the hypervisor leaf > > > and either blacklist vmware specifically or whitelist kvm. > > > > > > Please open (preferably urgent prio) bugzilla for biosdevname component > > > so we can fix it in F18, cc me. > > > I can write you a patch but maintainer needs to apply it. > > > > Thanks for the analysis, Michael. > > Fedora bug opened: Bug 884990 - non deterministic bios dev naming in KVM > > guests > > Please clone to RHEL7 too.
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