[et-mgmt-tools] virsh failed to get local hostname

[Cole Robinson]

Rodrique Heron wrote:
> On my fresh install of Fedora 11, I am trying to connect to a running guest console with virsh. When I execute virsh console I get the error below.
> 
> [root at N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   3 N1ISPWALK01          running
> 
> [root at N1-I-FKVM-01 ~]# virsh console 3
> error: Failed to get local hostname
> 
> I figured this may be because my /etc/hosts did not have an entry for the host. I modified /etc/hosts, and reboot the server, but I'm still getting the error.
> 
> Any hints?
> 

You probably want to set HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network . You can
then reboot the machine, or use the command:

'hostname <desired.host.name>'

- Cole