[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/2] appliance: Use dhclient instead of hard-coding IP address of appliance.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:44:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> qemu in SLIRP mode offers DHCP services to the appliance.  We don't
> use them, but use a fixed IP address intead.  This changes the
> appliance to get its IP address using DHCP.
> 
> Note: This is only used when the network is enabled.  dhclient is
> somewhat slower, but the penalty (a few seconds) is only paid for
> network users.  We could consider using the faster systemd dhcp client
> instead.

Little known fact - the kernel has a built-in DHCP server.
I wonder if it is possible to use   'ip=dhcp' as a kernel boot
arg ? Apparently the kernel provides a /proc/net/pnp file which
you'd symlink to /etc/resolv.conf for DNS setup.


Regards,
Daniel
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