2021-02-02 Planning and Build VM
Planning
IP Address: 192.168.1.123
MAC Address for ETH0: 00:16:3E:00:00:14
VNC console port: 23
O/S: Ubuntu 16.04
The IP resources and VM resources pages have been updated to reflect this.
VM Configuration File
The configuration file, allawah.cfg, is created in the /OVS/runningpool/ALLAWAH directory on VICTORIA.
Set Host Name
Used the following command to set the host name:
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname allawah.yaocm.id.au
Edit Network Settings
The default setting for the main NIC (eth0) is to use DHCP. I need a static IP address because this is a server.
Update Configuration File
The network configuration file, /etc/network/interfaces, had the following changes made:
Restart Interface
Using the VNC connection, I issued the following commands:
sudo ifdown eth0
sudo ifup eth0
Validate Network Settings
The network settings were validated as follows:
Install Ansible
Followed the procedure described in "Installing Ansible on Ubuntu":