Feature request - display the list of NICs on the Hardware page in the added order

[yatesco]

Hi,

I have just created a VM and added 7 NICs (it is the vyatta firewall/gateway) and the order of the NICs is very important.

Unfortunately the NICs displayed in the Hardware page aren't in the same order, so it is going to be really hard to diagnose which NIC maps to which ethX device.

Please display the NICs on the hardware page in the order they were added.

 

[dietmar]

Re: Feature request - display the list of NICs on the Hardware page in the added orde

Unfortunately the NICs displayed in the Hardware page aren't in the same order, so it is going to be really hard to diagnose which NIC maps to which ethX device.

The NIC order is under control of the VM kernel.

 

[yatesco]

Re: Feature request - display the list of NICs on the Hardware page in the added orde

The NIC order is under control of the VM kernel.

Hmm, really? I have the following order displayed under /qemu/1-101/hardware.htm:

 rtl8139 vmbr0  0E:C9:9F:B0:35:87 
 rtl8139 vmbr18  92:A9:57:7D:D2:27 
 rtl8139 vmbr19  8A:E5:80:70:D4:10
 rtl8139 vmbr20  76:9F:AE:9E:3B:9B 
 rtl8139 vmbr15  F2:11:F7:6D:8B:D9 
 rtl8139 vmbr16  E6:53:A1:80:DF:0E 
 rtl8139 vmbr17  7A:47:A3:18:F6:32  
...

but in the linux (vyatta) VM:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0e:c9:9f:b0:35:87  

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f2:11:f7:6d:8b:d9

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e6:53:a1:80:df:0e  

....

I explicitly added them in ascending order (vmbr0 then vmbr15 then vmbr16 etc.). The VM kernel has them in the right order it is just the hardware page that lists them in a different order.

 

[dietmar]

Re: Feature request - display the list of NICs on the Hardware page in the added orde

The VM kernel has them in the right order it is just the hardware page that lists them in a different order.

In general, there is no relation between the order inside the VM and the order on the hardware page (it is under control of the VM).