[Libguestfs] Debian 10 with libguestfs

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:15:57PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Julian Hyordey wrote:
> > As I said, it works, but you just forgot to modifiy /etc/hosts :
> > 
> > 127.0.1.1       ibm-p8-kvm-03-guest-02.virt.pnr.lab.eng.rdu2.redhat.com
> 
> Yes this is broken in several images including the Ubuntu ones.
> 
> It took me a long time to work out why it happens.  It turns out that
> it's because qemu uses 10.0.2.15 as a default address while
> installing, and that happens to reverse to some random machine on Red
> Hat's network.  When guests install they try to self-determine their
> hostname from their IP address, so this happens.
> 
> There's no a great deal I can do about this, but you can set your
> own hostname using the --hostname option.

Is there perhaps a way to block or alter the DNS resolution that QEMU is
seeing for 10.0.2.15.

eg What if you add '10.0.2.15 localhost.localdomain' to /etc/hosts on your
*host build* machine ?

Regards,
Daniel
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