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Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system ?
Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system
... via the XEN-API ???

Christiane Kämpfe
Server Management Software Engineer
IP SW SM 4

Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH
Otto Hahn Ring 6
81739 Munich
Germany

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Re: Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system ? [ In reply to ]
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +0200, "K?mpfe, Christiane" wrote:
>
> Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system
> ... via the XEN-API ???

Not really. There's no way for Dom0 to reliably know what / how many IP addresses
a guest is using. It may have 1 IP per NIC, or many IPs per NIC, or none.
At best the Dom0 could sniff the traffic to take a 'guess' at what IP might be
being used, but this isn't really something you want to rely on in an app,
since it would be incomplete or even potentially wrong. You'd really need to
have some agent in your DomU's that tells some management software outside
the host about its internal OS networking config.

Regards,
Dan.
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