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shogun1234

03-31-2012 04:57 AM

update /etc/hosts

I setup 4 virtualbox vms which have dynamic ip (my env uses dhcp ).

Now I need to ssh to each vm so when ip is changed, I have to check vm's ip and update /etc/hosts so that when next time ssh user@vm_host would work.

So I wrote a simple script and want to update /etc/hosts once vms are started up. But it seems the content of /etc/hosts won't be changed after executing the script, and the console shows '127.0.0.1: not found' What may go wrong? And hot to fix it?

Below is the script content.

Code:

for i in 1 2 3 4 

do 

        IP=`VBoxManage guestproperty get box$i "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" | awk '{print $2}'`

        

        `sudo sed 's/^(.*)                box$i\.domain\.com        box$i/^$IP        box$i\.domain\.com        box$i/g' /etc/hosts`

done

/etc/hosts looks as below:

Code:

127.0.0.1        localhost

192.168.1.111        my_host.domain.com        my_host

192.168.1.112        box1.domain.com        box1

192.168.1.114        box2.domain.com        box2

192.168.1.159        box3.domain.com        box3

192.168.1.199        box4.domain.com        box4

Thanks for advice.

ericson007

03-31-2012 06:13 AM

I know this is not specifically what you have asked, however, why don't you just configure the individual machines with a static ip? There are only 4, it is not like there are thousands.

shogun1234

03-31-2012 06:29 AM

I share network environment with other people in the building, so ip would be conflict if using the same one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericson007 (Post 4641349)

I know this is not specifically what you have asked, however, why don't you just configure the individual machines with a static ip? There are only 4, it is not like there are thousands.

TobiSGD

03-31-2012 06:34 AM

Just choose a different subnet for the VMs and you should be fine.

ericson007

03-31-2012 06:38 AM

You can also create a seperate subnet as the previous post said, or if you have control over the DHCP server or know what the address pool range is, assign 4 ip addresses that is not in the shared pool. That way there won't be conflicts either.

catkin

03-31-2012 07:32 AM

If you are getting the IPs OK, this is a straight sed question.

The sed command will not work as intended because the single quotes prevent substitution of the "$i"s. Change from single to double quotes and see if that works.

BTW the first part doesn't work for me:

Code:

c@CW8:~/d$ VBoxManage guestproperty get CW8vDS "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP"

No value set!

shogun1234

04-01-2012 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin (Post 4641380)

Code:

c@CW8:~/d$ VBoxManage guestproperty get CW8vDS "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP"

No value set!

In addition to change from single quote to double quote. Adding -r for extended-re is required. Following command achieve the effect.

Code:

#!/bin/sh



for i in 1 2 3 4 

do 

        IP=`VBoxManage guestproperty get box$i "/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" | awk '{print $2}'`

        `sudo sed -i~ -r "s/^(.*)\tbox$i\.domain\.com\tbox$i/$IP\tbox$i\.domain\.com\tbox$i/g" /etc/hosts`

done

Thanks for all your help.

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