Why don't the packets leaving a virtual machine's network interface honor the MTU value set for the interface?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • MTU value for "eth0" interface of the VM is "1500". However, the packets leaving from the interface are often of the size 7000.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2

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