with importing of suselinux OVF in to Vmwareworkstation , Unable to set the hostname always resets

Hi ,

I am new to OVF file customization , i tried with 2 methods to solve hostname setting issue not worked ,

Problem No :1

    I am trying to set the permanent host name  in ovf file with changing the below parameter in ovf file,

   <ProductionSection ovf:class="vami" ovf:instance="jack" ovf:required="false" >

     <Info>VAMI Properties</Info>

     <Category>Networking Properties</Category>

    <property ovf:key="hostname"  ovf:type="string" ovf:userConfigurable="true" ovf:value="itopsmachine" ovf:qualifiers="MinLen(0),MaxLen(655535)">

     <Label>Appliance fully qualified hostname</Label>

     <Description/>

   </property>

   ----------------------------

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</ProductionSection>

and importing to VMware Workstation 8.1.0. Its by default takes as localhost.localdom

Problem No: 2

   tried with setting the hostname in OS itself , with hostname command of suselinux , after reboot it changes back to localhost.localdom

Is there anyway to set the hostname in ovf file itself ? if any how to set?  ( specific to importing  ovf in to Vmware Workstation 8.x)

Note: customer not interested to use vapprun python module.

Please help me out to resolve this problem

Thanks in advance

Cheers,

Jagadeesan.M