[virt-tools-list] virt-manager: show guest IP

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Feb 1 13:19:26 UTC 2016


On 30.01.2016 17:10, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to configure virt-manager to show guest IP somewhere?
> 
> I am running qemu with qemu-guest tools and the following command works
> good:
> 
> virsh # qemu-agent-command 5 '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}'
> {"return":[{"name":"lo","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"127.0.0.1","prefix":8},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"::1","prefix":128}],"hardware-address":"00:00:00:00:00:00"},{"name":"eth0","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"192.168.185.188","prefix":24},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"fe80::5054:ff:fecc:cfc3","prefix":64}],"hardware-address":"52:54:00:cc:cf:c3"}]}
> 
> But I would like to see this information in virt-manager GUI like in
> some proprietary hypervisor clients.

Currently, there is no such option. Patches are welcome :)

But as a libvirt developer, I'd like to advertise 'virsh domifaddr'
command which does basically the same as you are doing in your example
but has one possible data source more.

Happy hacking!

Michal




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