Re: [libvirt] question about the commands: domhostname and hostname

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:40:12AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On 09/12/2012 07:59 AM, Li Zhang wrote: > > Sorry for wrong subject prefix of my mail, correct it. -:) > > > > The [libvirt] tag in the prefix is done automatically, you don't have to > do that ;) > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Li Zhang <zhlcindy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am testing the virsh commands, and I found that these two commands: > >> * domhostname > >> * hostname > >> > >> From the manual of virsh commands: > >> * hostname > >> Print the hypervisor hostname. > >> * domhostname domain > >> Returns the hostname of a domain, if the hypervisor makes > >> it available > >> > >> It seems that both of them want to get the host name. What's the > >> difference between them? > >> > > Basically it's what's written. "virsh hostname" will give you the > hostname of the hypervisor (host), but "virsh domhostname <domain>" is > trying to get the hostname of the specified domain (guest). Qemu support is in the works: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-08/msg03821.html but it's stalled since I couldn't get virtio-serial to work on windows and didn't get a chance to revisit it yet.

Cheers, -- Guido > > >> From the source code, domhostname only is supported for openvz on 0.10.1. > >> Will this be only for openvz in the future? > >> > > I don't know about anyone trying to work on this, but it doesn't mean it > won't change. It's possible to implement it for some other hypervisors > as well, but nobody had the need to, I guess. > > >> Any idea? > >> > >> Thanks a lot in advance. -:) > >> > >> -- > >> Best Regards > >> -Li > > > > Martin > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list >