[Users] Linux sysprep

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 13:18 +0400, Yuriy Demchenko wrote:
> Although you've already got some answers with payload/cloudinit idea, I 
> can point at another solution I've used myself:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/014907.html
> Use a vdsm-hook to write vmname into some bios field, then one-time 
> init-script inside template to configure your vm as you need.


Thanks a lot, Yuriy.
That's an interesting solution you came up with. Although I'm unsure if
I like to use bios fields for this. Beside this "little bios hack"
you're doing the same as with payloads except you're properly using
dmidecode in your init-script to get the vm name instead of mounting a
floppy and reading content of a file.


Regards,
René


> 
> Yuriy Demchenko
> 
> On 08/19/2013 06:17 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> > Another option would be to write a custom script which is started during
> > boot and disables itself after successful run (in the same way as
> > firstboot - I already have such a script for RHN Satellite/Spacewalk
> > joins). The problem here is: How do I get the (oVirt) name of this vm
> > (would need something like virt-whoami:)  )? Is the (internal oVirt) ID
> > of this vm stored somewhere in the filesystem of this vm? I don't think
> > so....
>