[libvirt] Using libvirt to obtain mac address of virtual domain

[Daniel Berteaud]

Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 17:27 -0500, Carlen, Devin C. (ARC-A)[PEROT
SYSTEMS] a écrit :
> Greetings, I am new to libvirt and am looking for the most efficient  
> way to programmatically obtain the mac address from a virtual domain.   
> Libvirt is providing access to xen and kvm in my case.  A nudge in the  
> right direction would be appreciated!

Hi.

If you need to get the mac address from bash, you can use this:

virsh dumpxml myguest | grep 'mac address' | cut -d\' -f2

You'll get one mac address per line (one line per NIC on the guest)

Regards, Daniel

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Devin Carlen
> 
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