Set hostname of guest during installation time

[john doe]

On 3/27/2020 5:29 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 16:48 +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote:
>> On 27. 3. 2020 14:57, john doe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to set the hostname when installing a guest, with the below
>>> command the hostname is not set to 'try06' in the guest:
>>>
>>> virt-install --name=try06 --graphic none --pxe --network bridge=virbr0
>>
>> This is the name of the guest registered in libvirt. I don't think that
>> virt-install has wired up setting hostname, but it looks like it can do
>> it. I mean, use --name for both libvirt name and guest hostname.
>
> Note that, while virt-install might be modified to automatically set
> the hostname in cases where it has full control of the installation
> process (--unattended), in the general case the user is performing
> the installation steps themselves in the context of the guest and
> virt-install has no way of knowing, or influencing, what happens
> there.
>

No argument there, in my case I'm doing a full unattended installation! :)

Thanks for the (--unattended) hint, will look into that and thanks to
Michal Prívozník for 'libvirt-nss plugin'.

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John Doe