From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update RC2 imminent Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:23 +0100 Message-ID: <519A09C7.8010502@eu.citrix.com> References: <20130520105153.GB32007@zion.uk.xensource.com> <519A046B.5070401@eu.citrix.com> <1369048572.10868.15.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1369048572.10868.15.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Ian Jackson , Roger Pau Monne , Wei Liu , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 20/05/13 12:16, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 12:09 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: >> I think long-term we probably want to sort out the "right" way to do >> this -- ideally I think we'd like there to be a "config on next reboot" >> that one could manipulate while the VM is running -- manually changing >> such things as the number of vcpus or amount of memory, automatically >> updating things like the cdrom and the mac address. > We already have the manual version via "xl config-update", but that's > really just a workaround for the cdrom/mac address issues. Then is the problem: 1. The randomly generated mac is not being stored automatically in the config? 2. The mac is being clobbered when re-loading the config file on reboot? If it's #1, it seems like it should be relatively straightforward to sort out. -George