[virt-tools-list] virt-manager: show guest IP

[Matwey V. Kornilov]

2016-02-01 16:19 GMT+03:00 Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>:
> On 30.01.2016 17:10, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to configure virt-manager to show guest IP somewhere?
>>
>> I am running qemu with qemu-guest tools and the following command works
>> good:
>>
>> virsh # qemu-agent-command 5 '{"execute":"guest-network-get-interfaces"}'
>> {"return":[{"name":"lo","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"127.0.0.1","prefix":8},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"::1","prefix":128}],"hardware-address":"00:00:00:00:00:00"},{"name":"eth0","ip-addresses":[{"ip-address-type":"ipv4","ip-address":"192.168.185.188","prefix":24},{"ip-address-type":"ipv6","ip-address":"fe80::5054:ff:fecc:cfc3","prefix":64}],"hardware-address":"52:54:00:cc:cf:c3"}]}
>>
>> But I would like to see this information in virt-manager GUI like in
>> some proprietary hypervisor clients.
>
> Currently, there is no such option. Patches are welcome :)
>

Where is the best place in UI to put networking info in your opinion?

> But as a libvirt developer, I'd like to advertise 'virsh domifaddr'
> command which does basically the same as you are doing in your example
> but has one possible data source more.

Am I right that domifaddr uses same mechanism to fetch the data (when
qemu:/// is used)?

>
> Happy hacking!
>
> Michal



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