Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
very much appreciate independent testing! Nathan > > Thanks, Remi > > _ > From: Nathan Johnson > mailto:njohn...@ena.com.invalid>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 3:26 PM > Subject: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Remi Bergsma
njohn...@ena.com.invalid>> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 3:26 PM Subject: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation To: mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> The title pretty much says it all. Currently mac addresses are automagically generated based on the guru th

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
Ron Wheeler wrote: > Does the PR include the documentation changes required to use it? Currently this is API only, and the API annotations have been updated to show how it is used. Automatic documentation generation that is currently used to generate API docs would pick this up. > > Networ

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
Does the PR include the documentation changes required to use it? Networking is one of the areas where Cloudstack is hard to understand and difficult to get setup properly. Anything that adds another option increases the complexity. Making Cloudstack more difficult to install in order to circu

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
Ron Wheeler wrote: > This would seem to violate the license agreement. > The license is supposed to be tied to specific hardware not a VM. > This sounds like something to be addressed legally rather than technically. > Possibly, but I don’t think that is so much a cloudstack concern as the use

Re: [proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
This would seem to violate the license agreement. The license is supposed to be tied to specific hardware not a VM. This sounds like something to be addressed legally rather than technically. It adds more complexity to a part of Cloudstack that already seems to be a barrier to entry. Ron On 1

[proposal] allow mac address to be specified for vm and nic creation

2017-06-13 Thread Nathan Johnson
The title pretty much says it all. Currently mac addresses are automagically generated based on the guru that is responsible for the network type. This would allow that behavior to be overridden by the API on deployVirtualMachine and addNicToVirtualMachine . One potential issue is that i