Re: [libvirt] Host IP Address

Anno domini 2010 IKI-サガル　バルウェ scripsit: Hi! > Thanks for such a quick reply. No problem :) >> Did I get you right, that you have a 'virDomainPtr' as basis and want a >> mapping >> from that to the IP? > Yes. Thats what I want to do. >> I guess one way could be to get the virConnectionPtr >> conn_ptr = virDomainGetConnect (domain_ptr); >> And then query the hostname >> virConnectGetHostname (conn_ptr); >> or the uri >> virConnectGetURI (conn_ptr); >> and resolve the hostname or extract the IP/host from the URI and >> resolve that. > Yes, I thought of this too. But I was hoping that the LibvirtAPI has some > way of giving me the host IP Address directly, instead of resolving it > myself. I don't know of any and I wouldn't know which IP to choose if there were multiple. > But then again, how would I resolve the IP Address from the hostname? Can > you please guide me on this. In short: struct hostent *hostent; hostent = gethostbyname (char *hostname); if (hostent) { for (i = 0; hostent->h_addr_list[i]; i++) printf ("%s, ", hostent->h_addr_list[i]); printf ("\n"); }