Bug 1132364

Summary:	[RFE] ability to set MAC address of guests
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Stephen Benjamin <stbenjam>
Component:	Compute Resources	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Katello QA List <katello-qa-list>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.0.4	CC:	anorton, oprazak
Target Milestone:	Unspecified	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	Unused
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URL:	http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1501
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Description Stephen Benjamin 2014-08-21 08:44:06 UTC

I'd love to be able to set the MAC address of VM guests (we control the DHCP server manually (if I get lots of spare time maybe I'll write a new dhcp smart proxy module)).

However the GUI hides the mac address in the "New -> Host -> Network" page, sadly it's not as simple as just commenting out "unless @hypervisor" from ./app/views/hosts/_unattended.html.erb.

./lib/foreman/controller/host_details.rb seems to be responsible somehow for displaying/hiding this item but my Rails development knowledge is non-existant.

Currently we have to create the VM (which fails to boot), then edit the libvirt config, stop the build, edit mac address, start the build.

It'd be great if you could _optionally_ specify the MAC address to use (and to generate one if it's blank as it currently does).

Foreman: v0.4.1

Comment 1 Stephen Benjamin 2014-08-21 08:44:08 UTC

Created from redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1501

Comment 2 Stephen Benjamin 2014-08-21 08:45:24 UTC

If a user is managing DHCP externally to Foreman, on an IPAM system that sets `next-server` based on matching a MAC range, it would be useful to be able to specify it in the UI. Perhaps under some kind of 'Advanced' section.

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2016-03-15 10:13:38 UTC

Upstream bug component is Compute Resources

Comment 5 Bryan Kearney 2018-09-04 18:54:55 UTC

Thank you for your interest in Satellite 6. We have evaluated this request, and we do not expect this to be implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Rich Jerrido or Bryan Kearney. Thank you.

Comment 6 Bryan Kearney 2018-09-04 19:04:52 UTC

Thank you for your interest in Satellite 6. We have evaluated this request, and we do not expect this to be implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Rich Jerrido or Bryan Kearney. Thank you.