Seems a little complication...
If there's no advance solution takes out,i'll try Sean's recommendation.

2012/12/28 Sean Hamilton <s...@seanhamilton.co.uk>

> I use the simple networking model.
>
> I use a combination of vbs scripts, cmd and curl. Essentially the script
> runs:
> ipconfig /all | findstr /C:""DHCP Server"" which gives me the IP address of
> the VR in my environment (this will change for each region so can't be
> hardcoded). I then use some regular expressions to strip out that IP
> address. A curl to http://IPADDRESS/latest/local-hostname will give you
> the
> name that the machine is meant to have. Then all you need to do is run:
> netdom renamecomputer localhost /newname:"& newName &" /Force /reboot 30
>
> It's certainly not as elegant as the linux solution and if anyone else has
> any ideas I'd love to take them onboard.
>
>
> On 28 December 2012 02:40, 马营 <breeze7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I gotta a extra question..
> > The linux instance can obtain the hostname which user has defined in UI
> > from VR(dhcp),but the windows instance cannot ..
> > How can i fix this ?
> >
> > 2012/12/27 John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co>
> >
> > > Cloudstack configures the domr dnsmasq server to serve out the
> > appropriate
> > > guest IP for the instance, and also sets up the reverse DNS between the
> > > display name and the guest IP.
> > >
> > > I'm forgetting the specific details - OS gets it's hostname either from
> > > DHCP or reverse dns…I can't remember exactly which. :)
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:05 PM, David Comerford <davest...@gmail.com>
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > When creating a new instance how does the Display Name make it to the
> > > > hostname on Linux VM's?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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