-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/2015 04:18 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > I want to setup a few test VMs on my VMware servers. > Can I simply clone a basic machine? A machine with no desktop, just an "empty" server. Yes.
> > Is there a script which I can use to simply "reset" machine specific stuff like the hostname, ssh keys, etc? One way could be to configure a template machine that you clone from. This machine will probably use with dhcp, and a firstboot script that is run only on the first boot for each cloned machine. This script could regenerate the ssh key for the ssh server, and poll additional scripts from another server that sets the hostname and a static IP address. (I wrote an instance manager for AWS a few years ago that could spin up any number of instances based on some rules, and with a combination of first-boot scripts and scripts generated for each instance, everything was 100% automated). Jarle - -- Jarle Aase email: ja...@jgaa.com Author of Free Software. http://www.jgaa.com War FTP Daemon: http://www.warftp.org Other free software: http://products.jgaa.com NB: If you reply to this message, please include all relevant information from the conversation in your reply. Thanks. <<< no need to argue - just kill'em all! >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUrsYOAAoJECdIPpCNC8ty4SkQALNzLpWmSbIT/qCRtirfyY/Y enP73Zb5KGIyYJeQHUO1LblK50O83/CW01n0JZo/Wd7CuHIOj7PdLB/wHXAEXEIq g7Z2f0cfNsAybAzvhCUCSaJa8gR1CLp4Jj7rk/3nbnUs/3W8S2SdXsLXJlS3hDMx zrGwW5m1LHs4+eVvf90GNPhZydVY4OOoVYY3dRrGlBxC63gYLU1BbQV5mSdH/ELX LEy3aPiGhf9c19V7t7X8cVwHcoTLB5ghVJl35TFrwdTJ1FjfHoXlUrEkyhlR03VX UvrykoqTJ4EB4DTMGVOKUDKWmxI9+SE10JeWuhuo5v2cv4VVHX89LZM7GzCW+lGB qMx/L0IUf8sQ8yYk/moEqBcNGOvDEwrC8k/6XR3J7OEXwbk6BLSg/+eaiv+9Z7Bf LP2Dn56CCAJsPHxs/yrvU6j4nuBjtWA4KVPb4YRQONIPmzrvD2K6t7yUxV9uptd1 8J0/uy5Opy6vVo5IcvCxfGg5aym8UbEwOCk5maXAV5XFqCR1pOViDJ3Ap0WS6kcD kDIyhbIRH79vvVtWdR1jARsLTfQ8q07BYwGPgooWNJ7u31QlL8mO4wXxI7j4DMhk k6JGG3le64Z1bAq5xDfsLmdvDRsqrDvHMVPFCFg68HpKroBGZYzD3I3xhrYZntW3 TxvPDT0Boa1tUIKR8yty =ehxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54aec60e.9000...@jgaa.com
