Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:52:01 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Dynamic hostname in rc.conf (for bhyve VMs) Message-ID: <f76151eb-8374-5691-b158-d3c7be9f6169@madpilot.net>
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Hi, Since rc.conf is just a shell script I'd like to be able to set hostname dynamically. This is bhyve related because what I'd like to do is pass an hostname to VMs via the -e option to bhyveload(8), and then read it in rc.conf, maybe via sysctl to set the hostname accordingly. By the way I'm using vm-bhyve [1] to manage my VMs. its configuration files are also shell scripts, so I was planning to hack some simple logic there, host side, to derive the hostname from filesystem (useful for cloned VMs). Could not find any example or documentation about any step of this. Is this even possible with current tools? I'm open to hacky solutions to start with, then maybe refine them. I'm trying to do this because I'm using a local dnsmasq that exposes DNS with the hostnames provided by VMs, but clones get the same naem as the machien they're cloned from and mask those in this small internal DNS. If each clone could provide it's different name it would be much better. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions. [1] https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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