Hello All:

I have posted this as well to

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/.../msg00158.html

and figured I would try here.

I am trying to set the hostname of VMs at boot time and banging my head against the wall. I am using

virsh create xen-config.xml

to boot a Scientific Linux 5.5 image. I have gone through the libvirt domain xml format at

http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsResources

and I don't see anywhere to set the hostname in there. I am using pygrub for the bootloader and noticed the "bootloader_args" element. Can I pass an argument to the kernel at boot to set the hostname? Nothing I have tried seems to work. I have looked in /proc/cmdline after the image boots and it doesn't appear that the arguments are even being passed. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

David

Hello,
I think you may want to boot the xen guest first and then edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network to set your hostname. According to your changes in /etc/sysconfig/network made an entry in /etc/hosts file too.

Thanks...
Manas