Find IP of VM running KVM

Question

How can I find the IP of the VM on KVM(using Nmap)? If not,are there any functions in Libvirt to do that?

Answer: After a day's worth of trying nmap/ifconfig/iptables, I chanced to stumble upon this - rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/…. epic link.

Simon Sheehan · Answer 1 · 2011-09-09 21:08:27Z

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After long hours of getting my hands dirty, I chanced to stumble upon this Epic link.

Get the MAC address of the VM from the config file of the VM(since I'm using KVM, I queried the .xml file for the MAC address).
Then use arp -a and get all the the MAC addresses and the Address of the interfaces and store it in a file
Query the file for the MAC address of VM from step 1.

answered Sep 9 '11 at 20:24

	Could you describe how this solved your problem? What did you do exactly? – Simon Sheehan Sep 9 '11 at 20:26
	@Simon Sheehan- Here's how I did it- 1. get the MAC address of the VM from the config file of the VM(since I'm using KVM, I queried the .xml file for the MAC address). 2. Then use arp -a and get all the the MAC addresses and the Address of the interfaces and store it in a file 3.query the file for the MAC address of VM from step 1. – P Ramesh Sep 9 '11 at 20:56
	Great, I added that to your answer – Simon Sheehan Sep 9 '11 at 21:08

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