Ryan,
--- On Tue, 3/9/10, Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com wrote:
From: Ryan Pugatch rpug@linux.com Subject: [CentOS-virt] get xen name from guest To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" centos-virt@centos.org Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:18 PM Hello,
Is it possible to get the name that was set in a VM's xen config file from the guest machine? I'm interested in having my kickstart launch a script that can configure hostname, but to do that it would need to get the name set in the config.
the Xen xm .PY config has an extra = 'console=ttyS0 xxyyzz=HOSTNAME'
it seems that this is intended for the kernel cmdline, but the parser is very tolerant and picks and chooses what it wants.
It might work to add some exotic param which you grab from dmesg in script.