Cloud-Init and setting hostname

dpearceFL

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Jun 1, 2020
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Using Virtual Environment 7.0-11

Trying cloud-Init functionality for the first time. Since we can set the IP address on the cloned VM, why can't we set the hostname on the cloned VM. Seems like an obvious setting to have. On my setup, it always has the hostname of the initial VM I setup.

In one place I saw it is supposed to take the hostname from the VI name. I tried citest, citest.localdomain and citest.localdomain.local and the name never changed.

Normally, the VM name should be different than the hostname.

Any ideas?
 

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