[libvirt] RFC: Implement virDomainGetIPAddress()
Matthias Bolte
matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 14 18:06:25 UTC 2011
2011/7/14 Michal Novotny <minovotn at redhat.com>:
> Hi guys,
> some time ago I've been investigating the options to get the guest's IP
> address information without having to connect to guest's VNC window or
> console. It was for one project I've been working on and I found that
> the solution lies in the procfs, precisely in the /proc/{PID}/net/arp...
>
> The format is as follows:
>
> $ cat /proc/{PID}/net/arp
> IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask
> Device
> 192.168.122.36 0x1 0x2 52:54:00:35:76:e6 *
> virbr0
I took a look at this and wonder what's the difference between
/proc/{PID}/net/arp and /proc/net/arp. Also as it's ARP it'll only
work for IPv4.
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Matthias Bolte
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