Reconfigure Linux VM Guest Image
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Internal
- Cloning a KVM Guest Virtual Machine
- VMware Fusion Operations
- VirtualBox Virtual Machine and Linux O/S Clone
Sequence
- Change machine name.
- Pick an available IP address from IP address spreadsheet and update IP address spreadsheet.
- Change the IP address. On VirtualBox, the internal host-only IP interface is configured in ifcfg-eth0.
- If multicast was enabled and a static multicast added, update the IP address of the interface in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-*.
- Change machine ID.
- yum -y update
- Install various public keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
- Change the root password.
- Configure log rotation.
- Make sure the guest starts automatically on virtualization host reboot.
- Manual start/stop scripts in ~/environments/.../start-*|stop-*
- Secure instance: Linux Security Hardening.