On 1/17/22 15:30, Petr Menšík wrote:
I think it might make more sense to correctly detect hostname during installation. If you define hostname on installation from network, it should be kept. I expect it should keep the same hostname during reboots. I think only diskless terminals may want always obtaining hostname on every boot. Anything storing state on local disk should want to keep its name.
That's fine if you're creating relatively bespoke VMs. But if I want to spin up a dozen disposable systems, I kinda want them to just take on the hostname that I've already set up in DNS, execute the install routines based on their hostname, and then go away when I'm done with them.
I think more tight integration with libvirt names would be useful. I admit I know little of that. I usually define name AFTER installation for my VMs, which would not work with what I propose. I would like easy way to set hostname from libvirt during installation. I don't need always fixed IP, but I want fixed DNS name for given VM. I expect that is common requirement.
Why would we reinvent the naming wheel? We have had a method for assigning hostnames for decades using gethostbyaddr(). Why has this changed with F35 all of a sudden?
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