Bug 953907

Summary:	virt-sysprep does not correctly set the hostname on Debian/Ubuntu
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2013-04-19 13:43:59 UTC

Description of problem:

See: http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/ChangeHostname

You have to also edit /etc/hosts.

Currently (just editing /etc/hostname) results in strange
warning messages when using sudo:

sudo: unable to resolve host [new hostname]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.21.31

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take a Debian/Ubuntu guest and use virt-sysprep --hostname ...

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2014-02-13 15:10:41 UTC

This has been fixed with
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/ab2df2e6598d421067d600f89a3d225162424d9b
which is in libguestfs >= 1.25.35.