Greetings, I am new to libvirt and am looking for the most efficient way to programmatically obtain the mac address from a virtual domain. Libvirt is providing access to xen and kvm in my case. A nudge in the right direction would be appreciated!

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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.