Re: [Xen-users] How to receive the IP-address of an Xen instance

To:	"Bill Denney" <denney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] How to receive the IP-address of an Xen instance that is using DHCP?
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Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:50:31 +0100
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2007/2/8, Bill Denney <denney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Thorolf Godawa wrote:
> > a) my Xen instances use DHCP to get internet access, how can I know
> > IP-address of that Xen instance? I could login with the "xm console"
> > b) when do you know your Xen instance is fully loaded? ( like when
> > it's ready for SSH transfer .. )
> if there is no possibility to get it from Xen directly, why not write
> a small script that starts at the end of the boot process inside the
> domu and sends the actual ip address via scp or ftp to the local dom0?

One thing you could try would be looking into the arp cache since Xen's
bridge will be able to map the MAC address to the IP address.

I checked the ARP-cache, but there was no MAC / IP-address of my Xen instance :-( ...

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