Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get a guest IP

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, zheng sw wrote:

> Host want to get the guest's IP when the host start the guest?

Why?

> My setting is: debian(2.6.8), qemu, bridge-utils, TUN/TAP. The
> guest get a IP from a DHCP server which is in the same subnet whit
> host.

Ok.

> My purpose is use bash to run ssh connect to the host, then run
> qemu, After the guest is started, the host want to get the guest's
> IP and send to me, but nobody will control the guest. Now I am
> puzzle in how the host get the guest IP.

The most obvious way would be to use dynamic DNS updates, supported by 
most DHCP servers, automatically registering the guest host name in DNS.

Another way is to have a init script in the guest to somehow tell the host 
what IP address it has.

Regards
Henrik