Re: [libvirt-users] Bringing up a guest with network disabled

On 10/01/2013 06:04 AM, James Gibbon wrote: Careful. You need to scrub more than just the IP address for a clone and it's parent to safely run at the same time. For example, if you don't scrub the entropy pool, then one of the two machines will now have predictable "random" numbers just by watching what the other host did, which is horrible from a security perspective. I highly recommend the use of 'virt-sysprep' on the image backup prior to creating your clone, which will not only scrub the IP address, but everything else that ought to be unique between a clone that is intended to run alongside the parent. Once you start from a clean image, then the question about starting the guest with network disabled may be moot. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org