invirt-admin create-sysvm leaves files in /etc/xen/

[Greg Price]

invirt-admin create-sysvm uses invirt-create-image, which uses xen-create-image, which drops a config file in /etc/xen/.
We have our own idea of what that config file should look like and where it should be, so we generate one in /etc/xen/sysvms/.
The one in /etc/xen/ should go away, either used for our config or discarded.

Relatedly, xen-create-image generates a MAC address, which we might as well use.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

It's not that hard to generate a MAC address.

Here - have one in an almost one-liner :)

python -c 'import random; print "00:16:3e:%02x:%02x:%02x" % tuple(random.randrange(255) for i in range(3))'

[Greg Price (gregprice)]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:33:39PM -0000, Evan Broder wrote:
> It's not that hard to generate a MAC address.
>
> Here - have one in an almost one-liner :)
>
> python -c 'import random; print "00:16:3e:%02x:%02x:%02x" %
> tuple(random.randrange(255) for i in range(3))'

This differs from ecprice's longer and more-commented version in
invirt-web/code/xen-ips. I'm all for concise implementations, but
let's use the same correct one in all places. =)

Greg

[Eric Price (ecprice)]

On 2009-02-06 23:45 -0000, Greg Price wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:33:39PM -0000, Evan Broder wrote:
> > It's not that hard to generate a MAC address.
> >
> > Here - have one in an almost one-liner :)
> >
> > python -c 'import random; print "00:16:3e:%02x:%02x:%02x" %
> > tuple(random.randrange(255) for i in range(3))'
>
> This differs from ecprice's longer and more-commented version in
> invirt-web/code/xen-ips. I'm all for concise implementations, but
> let's use the same correct one in all places. =)

As the comment above that function states, it's not my version, it's
xend's.

Eric

>
> Greg
>
> --
> invirt-admin create-sysvm leaves files in /etc/xen/
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326392
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> Bug description:
> invirt-admin create-sysvm uses invirt-create-image, which uses xen-create-image, which drops a config file in /etc/xen/.
> We have our own idea of what that config file should look like and where it should be, so we generate one in /etc/xen/sysvms/.
> The one in /etc/xen/ should go away, either used for our config or discarded.
>
> Relatedly, xen-create-image generates a MAC address, which we might as well use.