[libvirt-users] Bringing up a guest with network disabled

[Eric Blake]

On 10/01/2013 07:29 AM, James Gibbon wrote:
> Thanks, looks really useful but unfortunately I don't have it
> on this particular machine, which is going to be decommissioned
> in a few weeks anyway. The cloned VM will only be used for
> testing purposes, and only for a short time. Would be grateful if
> someone could suggest a way to disable the networking in the
> cloned VM within the XML, if that's possible.

Have you tried just removing the network device from the xml altogether,
then booting the guest, then hot-plugging a replacement device?  The
hotplug action would force the guest to negotiate a new IP address.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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