[ovirt-users] name of virtual machine and hostname

[Moti Asayag]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shahar Havivi" <shaharh at redhat.com>
> To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com>
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:12:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] name of virtual machine and hostname
> 
> On 27.06.14 05:18, Antoni Segura Puimedon wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "nicola gentile" <nicola.gentile.to at gmail.com>
> > > To: Users at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 11:16:51 AM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-users] name of virtual machine and hostname
> > > 
> > > Good morning,
> > > I would like to ask you an information.
> > > After I have installed ovirt, I have created a pool of vm with name
> > > like centos-?? (from 1 to 20)
> > > and then ovirt generated 20 vm with name centos-1, centos-2, centos-3
> > > etc.
> > > etc.
> > > The problem is when the vm starts the hostname is not the same of the
> > > vm name in ovirt but is the same name of the template.
> > > Is it possible to make sure that the name of vm and the hostname is
> > > identical?
> > 
> > I guess that the way to go about it would be to use the cloudinit
> > integration.
> > I've not tried it myself, but:
> >     http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cloud-Init_Integration
> > states that setting the hostname was one of the planned features when the
> > integration was designed.
> Setting the host name via cloud-init is currently supported - you can set it
> via the Add/Edit VM via the "Initial Run" section or try to run-once the VM
> and look at the same "initial Run" section.
> Please note that if you do Edit a VM that already run ie already initialized
> oVirt engine will not send the cloud-init data, you will need to use run-once
> dialog.
> 
> What you reported looks like a bug - the VM name should be the hostname and
> not the template name.

Unless Nicola referred to the template's host name, from which the vm pool was
created. It might be if the template wasn't sealed.

Nicola, could you clarify what did you mean by "template name" which appears as
the "host name" ?

Thanks,
Moti

> 
> Care to report the bug on bugzilla?
> Thank you,
> Shahar Havivi.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Best regard
> > > 
> > > Nicola Gentile
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