Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-03 Thread Fbsd8
Stephen Cook wrote: On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-02 Thread Shane Ambler
On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases,

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-03-02 Thread Stephen Cook
On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote: I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc).

Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Stephen Cook
Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc). Here's the list

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/27/12 5:54 PM, Stephen Cook wrote: Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: 2a) I saw (on the internet) some people having problems because VirtualBox generates a new MAC address for cloned machines, which somehow screws up the naming of the network interfaces (e.g. they get renumbered,

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/27/12 7:05 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Create new SSH keys 3a) For host keys, I can delete the existing ones in /etc/ssh/ and reboot, is there a better way? ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method. Or just

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method. Or just delete the existing keys and sshd will recreate them at first boot ;) No, sshd will not create the keys. They are created by /etc/rc.d/sshd, which invokes ssh-keygen if it