[Lguest] interest in copy-on-write disk image support?

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Fri Sep 7 03:27:25 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:49 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Hi rusty, how about letting the user-mode startup code set the network
> MAC? I realize I can also pass IP in cmdline, it would be convenient
> however for what I'm doing to set the MAC before the guest begins
> life.
> 
> Long story, I just learned once on a Quadrics network how nice the
> MAC==IP thing can be ...

Hmm, do we currently have enough feature bits to do something sensible?

I shall bear it in mind for virtio implementations (coming, am working
of kvm side of that too).

Thanks,
Rusty.





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