Re: [Hampshire] KQEMU bridge for multiple VM's performance p…

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] KQEMU bridge for multiple VM's performance problem (SOLVED)

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On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:04:28PM +0100, Damian Brasher wrote:
> Hugo Mills wrote:
> >    The University (or at least the department) should probably decide
> > on a suitable MAC address space (first three bytes of the address) for
> > local use and manage the allocation of addresses within that space, as
> > with increasing use of virtualisation, this kind of issue is going to
> > crop up more often.

>
> I wonder if the Qemu project has aquired a unique mac range?


Not to the best of my knowledge. In fact, having such a range will
*increase* the incidence of problems, because then people will select
randomly from only the bottom 3 bytes (instead of all 6).

Hugo.

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