Christopher G. Stach II wrote:
----- "Ryan Pugatch" rpug@linux.com wrote:
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.
Thanks, Ryan
Since there isn't an rpm for the xenstore tools for guests, copy libxenstore.so.* and /usr/bin/xenstore-read (and the rest, if you want) to the guest and use something like this:
#!/bin/bash
let i=1
while [ $i -le 100 ]; do NAME=$(./xenstore-read /local/domain/$i/name 2> /dev/null)
[ -n "${NAME}" ] && break let i++done
[ -n "${NAME}" ] && echo ${NAME}
exit 0
I don't see why you would even need this, though. If you are using kickstart, you can get the hostname with either the static configuration or DHCP.
The reason I want to do this is so I don't have to specify in the kickstart the IP to use. With our Dell servers, for example, I just add the service tag in to DNS and then the server figures out what IP it is supposed to have.
Ryan