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Re: [Xen-devel] Changing MAC address of Xen domU after live migration?

To: Vikram Subramanya <vikram.s3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Changing MAC address of Xen domU after live migration?
From: Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:46:34 +0100
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:43:49PM -0800, Vikram Subramanya wrote:
> For my experiment on live migration of Xen VMs, I want the MAC address of
> the migrated VM (domU) to change soon after migration, but just before the
> Gratuitous ARP reply is sent.

Care to explain why? Upstream kernels will not send an ARP in this case
anyway.

>                               Do you know where in the code/scripts I can
> add this feature?

You can remove the network interface before suspend and readd it after
the migration.

Bastian

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