Re: [PATCH qemu 0/1] MAC address falls to permanent

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 18:22, Vlao Mao <vlaomao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A bug was found with the vmxnet3 driver, after changing the MAC address
> and rebooting, it falls into the category of a permanent address until
> the VM is turned off.

For some network device models (those where the hardware has an
EEPROM and we're modelling "guest programmed a new MAC address
into the EEPROM") that is the correct behaviour. Is the vmxnet3
definitely one of the kind which is not supposed to have a
permanent MAC address backing storage ? (It's paravirtual, so
this would hopefully be indicated in the specs for it.)

thanks
-- PMM