On 05/02/2012 07:52 PM, me,apporc wrote: > We need to create many virtual machines and assign an static ip for each of > them. > To do this, > 1. we can use one dhcp server to assign ip for them, and bind the MAC to > it's ip. But we got many many machines, so this is not easy to operate for > admins. Maybe not the easiest, but this really is the best approach - manage your own dhcp server to assign ip addresses based on the mac addresses you have assigned to each VM. > 2. we can just create the vm and then let the client to config the ip from > within the operating system. But the client don't want to, and sometimes in > fact they should not be authorized to do that. > > Are there any way else to do this? I mean is there some API for that we can > use? or just mount the vm image file and change the network configuration > file? > If any API for that, can we change the config while the os in the vm is > running? libguestfs can be used to modify offline guest images; it can probably be used to modify IP addresses for each guest before you start them up, although for a formula for doing that, you may be better off asking on the libguestfs lists. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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