On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:46:52 -0400 Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/01/2013 09:29 AM, James Gibbon wrote:
Would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to disable the networking in the cloned VM within the XML, if that's possible.
I have no idea if it's possible to "disable" the NIC on the VM definition but you could boot into runlevel 1 (where there is no network) and perform the changes there. You may do this by passing a 1 to the end of the kernel line (during GRUB boot section).
I solved this eventually by both removing the <interface> section from the config, and interrupting grub and booting single user. I wasn't sure I'd get an opportunity to interrupt the boot, but since I had belt and braces I went for it. Many thanks for all the suggestions. James