Re: [Xen-API] Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system ?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +0200, "K?mpfe, Christiane" wrote:
> 
> Question: Can I get somehow the IP-address of a virtual system 
> ... via the XEN-API ???

Not really. There's no way for Dom0 to reliably know what / how many IP 
addresses
a guest is using. It may have 1 IP per NIC, or many IPs per NIC, or none.
At best the Dom0 could sniff the traffic to take a 'guess' at what IP might be 
being used, but this isn't really something you want to rely on in an app,
since it would be incomplete or even potentially wrong. You'd really need to
have some agent in your DomU's that tells some management software outside
the host about its internal OS networking config.

Regards,
Dan.
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