If you are using the UI to create the VM, set the name of the VM - this field sets the hostname and the display name. So you should see this value in the local-hostname file in the VR metadata folder. If you are using the API, explicitly set the name field.
Let us know if you see the desired name in the metadata after setting the name parameter. Thanks, ________________________________ From: cristian.c@istream.today <cristian.c@istream.today> Sent: August 4, 2023 10:22 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: RE: set display_name as hostname to instances Hi Pearl, I will test this when I upgrade to 4.18.x I'm waiting for 4.18.1. Thank you, Cristian -----Original Message----- From: Pearl d'Silva <pearl.dsi...@shapeblue.com> Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 4:24 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: set display_name as hostname to instances Hi Cristian, In addition, in 4.18 a new feature - managed User data was introduced. This can be used to register userdata with custom parameters - here, the hostname. And when deploying the VM, the custom parameters could be set to the desired values. You could refer to https://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-managed-user-data/ for more information. Thanks, Pearl ________________________________ From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> Sent: August 4, 2023 9:12 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: set display_name as hostname to instances Hi Cristian, I'm not sure, but could you try user data (cloud-init data) when you deploy a VM. In there, you'll have flexibility to set the hostname of the VM to whatever you'd like. Regards. ________________________________ From: cristian.c@istream.today <cristian.c@istream.today> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 20:28 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: set display_name as hostname to instances Hello, Is there a method to set as hostnames to the instances the display name? I did not see the display name in the metadata. I am asking this because the display name allows any format, such as fqdn.tld, and it does not matter if it's a duplicate or not. Thank you, Cristian
