19.21. Creating a Script to Generate MAC Addresses
Red Hat Virtualization can generate a MAC address for each virtual machine at the time of creation. Since there are 12 million possible numbers on the same subnet is very small, there is a chance you could get the same MAC address. To work around this, you can also write a script to generate a MAC address. This example script contains the parameters to generate a MAC address:
#! /usr/bin/python # macgen.py script generates a MAC address for Xen guests # import random mac = [ 0x00, 0x16, 0x3e, random.randint(0x00, 0x7f), random.randint(0x00, 0xff), random.randint(0x00, 0xff) ] print ':'.join(map(lambda x: "%02x" % x, mac)) Generates e.g.: 00:16:3e:66:f5:77 to stdout