Re: [libvirt] Host IP Address
Thanks Max,
> 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");
}
I got the idea of what to do. Thanks.
Thanks and Regards
Sagar Barve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maximilian Wilhelm" <max(a)rfc2324.org>
To: <libvir-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 4:23 PM
Subject: 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");
}
>
> HTH
> Ciao
> Max
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