[Libvir] More queries

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Katti, Vadiraj (STSD-Openview) wrote:
>>     4. Can get the ip address of each of the guests with any of the
>> APIs
> 
> No.  Guests can send out packets from their interface using any IP 
> address they want.  By convention it's normally set up so that guests 
> get an IP address from a DHCP server, but that's only a convention, not 
> required.  Imagine rephrasing the question as "Can I get the IP address 
> of each machine on my LAN?".

Actually, if I'd thought about that a bit more, I might have said: look 
in your local ARP table, and compare the MAC addresses with the ones in 
the libvirt domain XML.

It's still true to say that there isn't necessarily a fixed 1-1 
relationship between guests' network cards and IP addresses.

Rich.

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