[libvirt-users] Bringing up a guest with network disabled
Hello all,
I have a KVM guest VM which is a clone of a production machine
running on a different physical server, incarnated from an
image backup.
I want to start up the clone, but obviously it has the same IP
address at the moment, and naturally I want to avoid an IP
conflict.
Normally I'd mount the clone image, go in and change the
network config to allocate a different IP, but because it's set
up with its whole disk as a LVM that's a bit painful.
Is there a simple way I can disable the networking for the
guest clone in the config file, so I can VNC into its console
and change its IP address config that way?
The devices section of the config looks like this:
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/sonic2.img'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='0A:F7:B6:96:BF:85'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
</interface>
<serial type='pty'>
<target port='0'/>
</serial>
<console type='pty'>
<target port='0'/>
</console>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='5937' autoport='no'
keymap='en-gb'/>
</devices>
.. can I change that 'interface type' value to disable its
interface?
Thanks,
James