Sorry, I found the problem, I was appending the "macaddr=" parameter to the "-net tap" options instead of the "-net nic"
options as documented :(
e.g.
qemu -boot c -hda /hd1 -m 1024 -localtime -net nic -net
tap,macaddr1=52:54:00:12:34:01
instead of
qemu -boot c -hda /hd1 -m 1024 -localt
I'm trying to get the macaddr= parameter to work (with -net tap), but it does not seem to pass the specified MAC address
to the underlying virtual NIC (in my case ne2000 pci using)
This would not normally be required for a single instance if QEMU, but I want multiple instances per server as w