Libguestfs - Nov 2017 - Re: virt-customize networking question

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:26:37PM +0000, ANDRES POZO MUNOZ
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A quick question about a problem I’m facing.
>
> I want to customize some image running a customization script with
> virt-customize.
>
> Everything works fine, except the fact that I don’t have a DHCP
> server in the network (virt-customize relies on DHCP to assign the
> IP when it boots the image, right?) and all the commands accessing
> the network are failing.
>
> Is there any option (via config or something like that) to configure
> an static IP in the image?
I suspect you're actually hitting one of several bugs in dhclient,
because virt-customize should never ask for an IP address from your
public DHCP server.  See also:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1632405
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503507

Can you run ‘guestfish -a /dev/null --network run -v -x’ and attach
the complete output?

Rich.

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