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

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/02/2016 11:16 AM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> 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?
> 

To start, the interface device details in the VM details window, the same
place things like mac address and device model are reported.

>> 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)?

Yes, it has an option to check the guest agent IIRC.

Thanks,
Cole