[CentOS-virt] get xen name from guest

Wed Mar 10 13:14:49 UTC 2010
Ryan Pugatch <rpug at linux.com>

Brett Worth wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 05:53 PM, Mr. X wrote:
> 
>> the Xen xm .PY config has an 
>> extra = 'console=ttyS0  xxyyzz=HOSTNAME'
> 
> That's brilliant!
> 
> So if the parameter was "myname" then you could do:
> 
> hostname `cat /proc/cmdline  | tr ' ' '\n' | awk -F= ' $1 == "myname" { print $2 } '  `
> 
> Brett

Agreed, that sounds great, but I am not sure what you mean by "Xen xm 
.PY config".   Can you elaborate?
Thanks