On 09/09/2011 01:59 PM, PREETHI RAMESH wrote: First: The VM can manage it's IP adress itself: may be static or dynamic. To know the IP adress, I'd sugges to to use the tools you use to use for a "real" network. But, you are lucky on the host you have "iptables". I suggest you to look at the "LOG" target: http://is.gd/TFy6KQ The MAC & IP will then be visible in the logs (syslog, or somewhere else) -- RMA.