Hi Jun Koi   Thanks for your reply.   I am writing a tool to document the novell xen server and its vm configuration. for this i need to know how to get operating system of vm and its ipaddress. Help me  Regards, Gandhiraj Natarajan   --- On Fri, 23/10/09, Jun Koi <junkoi2004(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Jun Koi <junkoi2004(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [libvirt] Get Virtual Machine Information To: "Gandhiraj Natarajan" <gandhiraj_gk(a)yahoo.co.in&gt; Date: Friday, 23 October, 2009, 7:51 PM On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Gandhiraj Natarajan <gandhiraj_gk(a)yahoo.co.in&gt; wrote: Is that HVM, or PV? in the case of HVM, it is not realistic to get the IP, as the IP is managed from inside the HVM, and that is out-of-control from Dom0. Could you explain why you need this kind of information?? Thanks, J The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/