Re: [libvirt] Using libvirt to obtain mac address of virtual domain

Daniel Berteaud wrote:

If you need to get the mac address from bash, you can use this:

virsh dumpxml myguest | grep 'mac address' | cut -d\' -f2

You'll get one mac address per line (one line per NIC on the guest)

An alternate approach which doesn't depend on the specific manner in which the XML is pretty-printed follows: virsh dumpxml myguest \ | xmlstarlet sel -t \ -m "/domain/devices/interface[@type='network']/mac" \ -v '@address' \ -n This does add an external dependency (see http://xmlstar.sf.net/), but I find XMLStarlet useful in conjunction with libvirt in other cases -- for instance, for programatically adding or modifying devices within the domain XML.