Bug 617243 - libvirt should not use the MAC address assigned to tap devices/vnet interfaces by the TAP/TUN driver.
Summary: libvirt should not use the MAC address assigned to tap devices/vnet interface...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 5.5.z
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jiri Denemark
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 571991 652605
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-07-22 15:08 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2022-07-09 05:11 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-08-10 17:02:48 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0615 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: libvirt security and bug fix update 2010-08-10 17:02:33 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-07-22 15:08:05 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #571991 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 3 Jiri Denemark 2010-07-26 14:21:41 UTC 
Fix built into libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.2
Comment 5 Johnny Liu 2010-08-02 10:11:52 UTC 
Verify this bug with libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5_5.3 on RHEL5u5-Server X86_64 KVM, and PASSED.

Here is my steps:
1. Define a guest with the following mac address.
<mac address='54:52:00:12:ce:b8'/>
2. Start/Destroy guest for several times, bridge mac address is not changed, so host is always keep reachable.

Before start guest:

# brctl show; ifconfig br0;ifconfig eth0
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
br0		8000.6cf049270c06	no		eth0
virbr0		8000.000000000000	yes		
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6C:F0:49:27:0C:06  
          inet addr:10.66.92.198  Bcast:10.66.93.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: 3ffe:501:ffff:100:6ef0:49ff:fe27:c06/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe27:c06/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6433 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:4789942 (4.5 MiB)  TX bytes:239926 (234.3 KiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6C:F0:49:27:0C:06  
          inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe27:c06/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4548553 errors:0 dropped:1357 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1339934 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:6763681923 (6.2 GiB)  TX bytes:92213194 (87.9 MiB)
          Memory:fc300000-fc320000

Start guest:

# virsh start test1;brctl show; ifconfig br0;ifconfig vnet0
Domain test1 started

bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
br0		8000.6cf049270c06	no		vnet0
							eth0
virbr0		8000.000000000000	yes		
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6C:F0:49:27:0C:06  
          inet addr:10.66.92.198  Bcast:10.66.93.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: 3ffe:501:ffff:100:6ef0:49ff:fe27:c06/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe27:c06/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6578 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:4805423 (4.5 MiB)  TX bytes:244592 (238.8 KiB)

vnet0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:52:00:12:CE:B8  
          inet6 addr: fe80::fc52:ff:fe12:ceb8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1964 (1.9 KiB)

Now libvirt should assign MAC address in the upper range (starting with FE:xx) to tap devices to prevent the MAC address of the bridge from changing every time a VM is created or destroyed.

So this bug is fixed.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-10 17:02:48 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0615.html
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