Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Assign network interface names.

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

>> I did a little research and it sounds like many virtualized
>> environments reuse MAC address ranges assigned to other manufacturers,
>> so I guess they don't want a conflict.
> I'd say if  we have more than 1 NIC in a VM, we have to fixate name <-> mac
> regardless of possible conflict (if there is a conflict, we have to re-generate
> mac addresses - but it's a bit different story). To be honest, I don't
> understand the reason of ignoring NIC name persistence in VM, but those line
> were intentionally added - so, the reason apparently exists. It goads my
> curiosity :)

I don't understand it either.

Does KVM keep the same Mac address every time it boots the same VM?
(if not, then it makes sense)

>> Is there a file in /lib/udev/rules.d/ that has a rule to omit KVM
>> devices?  (like "75-persistent-net-generator.rules")  If so, I'd be
>> okay with editing the file to remove the VM rules, or just removing
>> that file.
> Yes, it's exactly "75-persistent-net-generator.rules" file. Done as a patch
> because we cannot remove the rules file.

Why can't the file just be removed in the install script?

 - BS