5:10 a.m.
Hi all,
Could I ask if libguestfs provide some kind of tools via which we could
modify network configuration of Windows guest image? It really makes sense
if such tools exist, so that we could deploy several Windows guests from the
same template image in a batch way automatically. Or do you have any hints
to achieve this? Thanks.
Yufang
5:20 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 06:10:36PM +0800, Yufang Zhang wrote:
Hi all,
Could I ask if libguestfs provide some kind of tools via which we could
modify network configuration of Windows guest image? It really makes sense
if such tools exist, so that we could deploy several Windows guests from the
same template image in a batch way automatically. Or do you have any hints
to achieve this? Thanks.
virt-win-reg --merge WindowsGuest < changes.reg
http://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html
However you need to know which registry entries you want to modify. I
don't know, off hand, but I'm sure it's easy to find out with some web
searching.
Rich.
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5:49 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:20:20AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 06:10:36PM +0800, Yufang Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could I ask if libguestfs provide some kind of tools via which we could
> modify network configuration of Windows guest image? It really makes sense
> if such tools exist, so that we could deploy several Windows guests from the
> same template image in a batch way automatically. Or do you have any hints
> to achieve this? Thanks.
virt-win-reg --merge WindowsGuest < changes.reg
http://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html
However you need to know which registry entries you want to modify. I
don't know, off hand, but I'm sure it's easy to find out with some web
searching.
Probably you want to look at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip
(note that ControlSet001 might be different for your template. See:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html#currentcontrolset_etc_ )
The guest's Hostname is stored directly as the "Hostname" entry in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
I only have Windows guests that get their configuration through DHCP,
so I am seeing lots of DHCP configuration entries in
...\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{...} I bet that if you had a
template with a static address, then that would appear somewhere under
there too.
If you let us know which exact bits of the network configuration you
are interested in modifying, I can probably help further.
Try using the virt-win-reg --unsafe-printable-strings option when
looking at the registry.
Rich.
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