Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:54:17 -0500 From: Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cloning a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <4F4BB539.7030103@gmail.com>
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Hello all! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far. I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g. setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc). Here's the list of things I need to change on each new clone, am I missing anything obvious? Or are there any gotchas to what I'm trying? 1) I have to change the hostname in rc.conf 2) I have to change the IP address in rc.conf (I'm using static IPs) 2a) I saw (on the internet) some people having problems because VirtualBox generates a new MAC address for cloned "machines", which somehow screws up the naming of the network interfaces (e.g. they get renumbered, thereby ignoring any configuration you have set up). Now I can't find it anymore, at least not for FreeBSD. Some Linux forums have info about "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" which doesn't exist in FreeBSD as far as I can tell. Is this a concern? I don't seem to be having a problem but TBH I'd rather understand what is going on than just be lucky. 3) Create new SSH keys 3a) For host keys, I can delete the existing ones in /etc/ssh/ and reboot, is there a better way? 3b) Should I bother changing the SSH keys for any users I have? It is basically one user (I use to log in with) which will be the same across the board anyway. Thanks for any insight! -- Stephen
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