Re: [libvirt-users] Guest interface info under ESX driver
Thanks for the speedy replies guys, much appreciated.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Matthias Bolte
<matthias.bolte(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Currently libvirt doesn't provide a function to get the IP
address of
a domain's network interface.
Might be a useful addition as libvirt can know/determine the IP
address in several cases.
It'd be an useful addon to libvirt, as at the moment there are not
many mature Python interface libraries for ESX.
The domain XML doesn't contain the IP address (yet).
With VMware tools installed in the guest it might be possible to
obtain the IP address via the vSphere API, I didn't test this yet.
Yes VMware Tools need to be deployed within the guest OS for the IP to
be visible even to ESX itself.
I think I'll resort to using ESX's own API interface to query this
piece of info (possibly via pywbem). An example of such use is
available @
http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-list-virtual-machines-using-python-and-...
Regardless will keep using libvirt for the remainder of functionality
I'm after.
But libvirt doesn't have a function to expose this information
yet.
virInterface is for the host network interfaces, this is not what
you're looking for.
This matrix is quite outdated, and needs to be updated :(
Matthias
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