[xen-tools-discuss] IP auto-increment

[.:: Alfred Sawaya ::.]

Steve Kemp a écrit :
> On Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 19:47:35 +0200, .:: Alfred Sawaya ::. wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm new to the xen-tools communitie, I just wonder where I could find an
>> exhaustive documentation about xen-tools.conf. I would like to
>> auto-increment ips when creating xen guests. I've tried the method as
>> describe here :
>> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/A_brief_introduction_to_xen-tools
>>
>> But it doesn't work.
>>     
>
>   "It doesn't work" isn't a helpful description of your problem.
>
>   Can you tell us:
>
>    * What did you try?
>    * How did it fail?
>    * Did you receive any errors?
>   
Sorry, I've tried the method as describe on the website I've quoted,
which is :

in the xen-tools.conf, I added this line :
 
             ip = 192.168.1

and I've created a text file like this :
  
             echo 53 > /etc/xen-tools/ips

And my first guest should have 192.168.1.53 as ip. Then the text file
ips should be 54 and the next guest should receive 192.168.1.54 as ip.

I don't want to have a pool of ip, I would like to assign static IP
automatically directly in the config file of the guest. If the guest
reboot, it should still have the same IP as before.
>   Take a look at the output of "xen-create-image --manual" and you'll
>  see this:
>
>  --
>
>   One other useful shortcut is the use of an automatic IP address.
>  You can specify '--ip=auto' and the system will choose and use
>  an IP address from those listed in /etc/xen-tools/ips.txt.
>
>   For example if you wished to have Xen guests automatically
>  take an address from the range 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.200 you
>  would first prepare the system by running this:
>
>   rm /etc/xen-tools/ips.txt
>   for i in $(seq 100 200) ; do echo 192.168.1.$i >> /etc/xen-tools/ips.txt ; done
>
>   Now you can create a guest with the command:
>
>   xen-create-image --ip=auto --hostname=blah [--dist=...]
>
>   The first time this ran the machine would receive an IP address
>  from the pool which we've created.  This IP would be marked as used,
>  and would no longer be available.  If all the IP addresses are taken
>  then the system will fail.
> --
>
>   
Didn't see the --manual option, got to read it right now thanks

>   Does that help?
>
> Steve
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