Package: qemu
Version: 0.9.1-1

When trying to run several qemu machines in a local mcast based
network, the hosts are not able to reliably talk to each other,
because all of them have the same MAC address.  I know I can hardcode
MAC addresses for each client, but it would be more convenient if this
wasn't required, as I could use the same network setting for all hosts
on the same network.  The script I use to test with qemu is available
as qemu-test-network from
<URL: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-edu/trunk/src/debian-edu-config/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ >.

Please make qemu pick a MAC address at random, or using some algorithm
that will increase the chances of each host getting an unique one.
Perhaps some algorithm based on PID and time of day could be used?

Happy hacking,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
drupal5, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

drupal5_5.8-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/d/drupal5/drupal5_5.8-1.diff.gz
drupal5_5.8-1.dsc
  to pool/main/d/drupal5/drupal5_5.8-1.dsc
drupal5_5.8-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/drupal5/drupal5_5.8-1_all.deb
drupal5_5.8.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/drupal5/drupal5_5.8.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 490298@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Luigi Gangitano <luigi@debian.org> (supplier of updated drupal5 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:36:46 +0200
Source: drupal5
Binary: drupal5
Architecture: source all
Version: 5.8-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Luigi Gangitano <luigi@debian.org>
Changed-By: Luigi Gangitano <luigi@debian.org>
Description:
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Closes: 490298 490559
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[Replying to an old bugreport...]

11.07.2008 15:34, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

This is something which is really easy to script (making mac addresses
random), but you're asking something which will break lots of guests, --
for example, almost all modern linux systems will create new ethX device
on each boot in this case, since the MAC will be different and the NIC
will be treated as different device.  The same applies to windows guests.

Marking as wontfix.

Thanks,

/mjt