On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:13:53AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 08.06.2012 11:02, Alex Jia wrote: > > On 06/08/2012 04:04 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >> This feature has been requested for a very long time. However, > > I'm very glad to see this patch :-) > >> we had to wait for guest agent to obtain reliable results as > > Yeah, it's a good way to get guest IP by GA, the disadvantage is we have > > to depend on > > GA installation the guest, sometimes, it probably is a trouble thing, > > for example, I use > > virt-v2v to convert a existing ESX VM into libvirt then the ESX VM > > impossible had GA > > installation ago, if I want to automate to finish all of stuff, but I > > don't know VM IP address, > > so I can't automatically install GA in the converted VM, it may be a > > special case for you. > > > > However, 'tcpdump' or 'nmap' can do the same thing without GA > > installation in the guest, > > maybe, we may have optional solution for how to get guest IP, of course, > > it's just my idea. > > I do agree. But a guest can be evil and send spoofed packets, or just > run another guest inside which makes it hard to recognize which guest an Can't the guest agent lie about the machine's interfaces too? Cheers, -- Guido > IP belongs to. But I think this can be implemented anyway - but must > make sure users know abut certain unreliability of such method. > > Michal > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list