On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Matthias Saou wrote:
Hmmmm, indeed, this works, but this makes things uglier for me. Renaming my system from 'test' to '00:16:3e:01:ec:2e' in Cobbler and using --system=00:16:3e:01:ec:2e instead of --system=test makes the virtual guest get the intended the MAC address, but :
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When I run 'xm list' and see a bunch of host names, it's much quicker for me to stop/restart/connect-to any of the guests than with having a list of 00_16_3e_xx_xx_xx entries :-/ Same for the WebUI... So it seems to me that there is too much logic on the Koan side, which makes it impossible to use a friendly name and have it use the MAC address configured in the Cobbler.
It is not magic to do a look up from a hard name (a hash, actually) to common name. Is an RFE in order here, to add a backend transation store, and minimal maintenance tools to manage it? -- sqlite and just a few lines of code, and one is done. - or - add perl-DBI perlish hooks, and one gets whatever backing store is locally convenient.
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