[libvirt-users] Is thre any way to change the vm computer name which joined AD

[Paul Wouters]

On 12/24/2012 04:01 AM, Timon Wang wrote:
> If a vm join AD domain, the name is registered in the AD server, when I
> copy a VM, the name will conflict with the source VM.
> I wanna to know if I can change the VM computer name automaticly.

When I (automatically) create my test VM's, I give them hard coded MAC 
addresses. Then in the anaconda kickstart %post section, I enable a 
service I called 'transmogrify' that looks at the MAC address, and then 
bind-mounts the appropriate config files into /etc/ (such as 
/etc/sysconfig/network containing the hostname). This happens before the 
network starts. So then I copy this disk image into multiple COW images 
and boot all test machines from 1 disk image, and they boot and get 
their individual identities based of the MAC of the VM, which I hardcode 
in the XML files I use with "virsh define" command.

Though this solution obviously is based on running Linux in the VM guests.

Paul