On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 18.03.2012 03:24, Harold Fei wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern: > > > > I use libvirt over one month, I > > need a function to set the ip address of the guest machine. One can > > change the guest ip address will be a great appreciation. However, I did > > not find such a feature in the process of learning libvirt. The purpose > > of this mail is to ask the experts whether libvirt provide such a > > feature. If there is no, how can I implement such functionality. > > You can create static leases based on interfaces MACs: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-February/msg00373.html > > However, libvirt lacks API for changing guest's interface IP on the fly > since qemu-ga lacks such feature too. Therefore when implementing this > functionality - qemu-ga part needs to be done firstly so you can build > on stable interface. This may be your inspiration: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg04173.html I'm not entirely convinced this is in scope for libvirt. Once you start talking about configuring guest networking, IMHO, this has become a general "OS management" problem, for which there must be countless existing solutiuons. Just deployment some existing agent to handle this kind of thing. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
