On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:30:50AM +0000, Henry Kemp wrote: > I've just run through the process of getting virt-p2v setup to PXE boot > and that seemed pretty straightforward. During the install though it > didn't set up name resolution correctly - I'm assuming it should try to > do this from either looking at the files from the guest its trying to > virtualise or through DHCP? > > Working throgh the virt-p2v script from the source code and the output > of virt-p2v (below) it looks as though it mounts up /etc from the > original host correctly and /etc/resolv.conf looks ok. > > Then because this client is using DHCP when we run "/etc/init.d/network > start" it tries to move resolv.conf to one side but it can't because the > filesystem has been mounted ro. The script then unmounts /etc and we go > back to the /etc filesystem from the live image which doesn't have > anything setup for resolv.conf. Ah right, thanks for this analysis. I actually had exactly the same problem and couldn't work it out, but assumed it was just a problem with my own test machine ... I'll try and put a fix in the next version. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
