Thanks for the speedy replies guys, much appreciated. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently libvirt doesn't provide a function to get the IP address of > a domain's network interface. > > Might be a useful addition as libvirt can know/determine the IP > address in several cases. It'd be an useful addon to libvirt, as at the moment there are not many mature Python interface libraries for ESX. > The domain XML doesn't contain the IP address (yet). > > With VMware tools installed in the guest it might be possible to > obtain the IP address via the vSphere API, I didn't test this yet. Yes VMware Tools need to be deployed within the guest OS for the IP to be visible even to ESX itself. I think I'll resort to using ESX's own API interface to query this piece of info (possibly via pywbem). An example of such use is available @ http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-list-virtual-machines-using-python-and-cim-part-2.html Regardless will keep using libvirt for the remainder of functionality I'm after. > But libvirt doesn't have a function to expose this information yet. > > > virInterface is for the host network interfaces, this is not what > you're looking for. > > This matrix is quite outdated, and needs to be updated :( > > Matthias -- sengork
