[linuxkernelnewbies] jcm’s blog » Cloning a Fedo ra rawhide virtual machine

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/category/general/posts-related-to-ongoing-work-on-the-fedora-project/ Cloning a Fedora rawhide virtual machine Saturday, August 8th, 2009 Setting up a clone of a Fedora rawhide virtual machine is so simple… Create a new virtual machine instance Stop and then copy the disk image file for the previous VM Boot the new VM in single user mode Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network file to change the hostname Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file to change the networking Do exactly the same thing in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules grep through the filesystem to see where else network data is duplicated. Notice how more and more abstraction of network configuration does not a simpler system make. At least I don’t care about sound on my virtual machines, so to avoid that fun I simply delete the sound device whenever I create a new VM. I never use NetworkManager on boxes with fixed IPs - somehow I don’t think cloning would get any easier (unless I used DHCP, which does work here but I prefer being certain the box has a fixed configuration when used for testing) with that turned on. Jon.