[libvirt] Are there interfaces to change IP address of given domain before it runn

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:02:42PM +0800, Ian jonhson wrote:
> > Use DHCP, and ensure that when you create the domain configuration xml
> > file for the second instance that you remove the MAC address lines
> > before you define it in virsh so libvirt generates new MAC addresses
> > for the copies.
> >
> 
> However, I can not know the IP address before it has been allocated by
> DHCP service. So, I can not scp my applications outside into new cloned
> VM. Have any solution to bind a given IP address to a VM instance?

Setup fixed MAC -> hostname -> IP address mappings in your DNS / DHCP 
servers

Daniel
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