Re: Set hostname of guest during installation time

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.