Looking for a Proxmox Specific MAC Address generator (as opposed to having PVE autogenerate it for me)

[Zubin Singh Parihar]

I'd like to Pre-generate the Mac Address for a tool I'm building. I'm currently using one for VMware (and VMware only allows specific MAC addresses) and wondering if Proxmox has something similar?



Is there a Proxmox SPECIFIC Mac address generator?



(i'm guessing there is a function in the codebase - does anybody know where that is?)

 

[gurubert]

You can use the API to create the vNIC (or the whole VM) and set the MAC yourself.

 

[Zubin Singh Parihar]

Amazing. Will check this out

 

[VictorSTS]

There's also the option to force the first 3 numbers of the new MACs Proxmox will create on Datacenter -> Options -> MAC address prefix. It might be enough for your use case.