This is not a userspace solution. I don't have root control over the host systems only the guest OS and the user account that is running the Vmware image.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Roy and all, > Are you trying to get the client machine to resolve all names for the > other clients machines? > > There appears to be some 'magic' regarding DNS which can be performed in > the dns.conf file (vmware claims to support standard dhcp.conf options) > > see: > > http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/VMware_Server_2.0_DHCP_Configuration#Configuring_the_VMware_Server_DHCP_Server_on_Linux_Hosts > http://linux.die.net/man/5/dhcpd.conf > > In this way there should be no need to tinker with the guest OS(es) as > dhclient should handle it all automatically. > > Cheers, > Simon. > > > I want to automate a name resolution for VMware systems users run with > > host-only networking. VMware has it's own DHCP server internally for > this. > > The best solution would be to have the guest OS boot and request an IP > > then > > write that to a plain text file in the users home directory using the VM > > share directory feature. I tried to store the IP in a file called .hosts > > file in the users home directory but I have never see this done before > and > > I > > tried it and could not get any programs to honor the file. > > > > Is there a userspace name resolution solution that does not involve using > > a > > sudo script to modify the /etc/hosts file? > > > > -- > > http://www.Radados.org > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- http://www.Radados.org
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