Hi Fernando, It sounds like you will need to update the automation in either choice you make. I have also been persisting my hosts' configurations, including the mac-addresses, so that I can power-off and even "destroy" the virtual machine. That's an option you may consider, either by not running virsh destroy command or by using the virsh dumpxml command. M $ sudo virsh dumpxml controller-0 | grep "mac.address" <mac address='52:54:00:12:7a:8f'/> <mac address='52:54:00:ff:74:ba'/> <mac address='52:54:00:6f:7f:21'/> <mac address='52:54:00:d4:26:c1'/> On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 17:07 +0000, Hernandez Gonzalez, Fernando wrote:
Hi guys, thanks both of you.
The motivation is because I am working with a Security Test Cases where at the end I am doing a backup and restore for a Virtual Dedicated Storage lab, our automation creates the nodes automatically and nodes' MAC Address are assigned randomly making the restore not get completed because of the mismatch of MAC Addresses.
Based on your feedback I will proceed to specify MAC Addresses on .xmls nodes structures with a couple of some other tweaks seems to be simpler.
Thanks.
Fernando Hernandez Gonzalez Software Engineer
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