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So far the NSS module looks up only hostnames as provided by guests themselves. However, there are some cases where this is not enough: e.g. when there's a fresh new guest being installed (with some generic hostname) say from a live ISO image; or some (older) systems don't advertise their hostname in DHCP transactions at all. In cases like that it would be helpful if we translate domain name as seen by libvirt too so that users can: # virsh start $dom && ssh $dom In order to achieve that new libvirt-guest module is introduced, while older libvirt module maintains its current behaviour (that is translating guest provided names into IP addresses). Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>