Re: how to get ip addresses of all the virtual machine in xen server

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:38:27PM -0800, ramailango wrote:
> > I have the server virtualized by xen.i created 10 virtual machines in the
> > server.
> > now i am power up 5 virtual machines only.i want to find ip addresses of all
> > the power up virtual machines from server.
> > how to find it?
>
> There's no easy way to know it, other than doing a network scan.
> A virtual machine has it own, intependant network start and is no different
> than 2 physical boxes connected to an ethernet switch.
> A virtual machine could be configured to have no IP address, or several.
> It only depends on how the OS of the virtual machine has been configured.

Other Xen-based virtualisation products (e.g. Citrix XenServer) include PV 
network drivers and related tools which pass this information back to the 
dom0. Without that, you are stuck as Manuel says.

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Stephen