Question on "machine-id" for clones of a base image. I built out my CentOS 8 base image to be used as a clone. I made two clones and the machine-id doesn't update from the base machine-id. I expected the clones to get new machine-id's. Here are my steps for cloning:
Create new clone
MAC Address Policy: Generate new MAC address for all network adapters
Full Clone
Login and update hostname
Here are the /etc/machine-id files from each machine.
Base Clone:
[user1@centos8-base ~]$ cat /etc/machine-id
08b080a8dc9646aebfbd6e196c2e5f10
[user1@centos8-base ~]$
Clone1
[user1@centos8-1 ~]$ cat /etc/machine-id
08b080a8dc9646aebfbd6e196c2e5f10
[user1@centos8-1 ~]$
Clone2
[user1@centos8-2 ~]$ cat /etc/machine-id
08b080a8dc9646aebfbd6e196c2e5f10
[user1@centos8-2 ~]$
Is this an issue, or no?
Thank you!
CentOS8 clones not getting new "machine-id"
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Re: CentOS8 clones not getting new "machine-id"
In your Linux guest, read man machine-id to understand what the machine-id really is. In short, it's a random value created by the Linux guest OS at installation or boot time, independent from the (physical or virtual) hardware.Visolara wrote:I expected the clones to get new machine-id's.