libvirt users - Jan 2014 - Re: How to find domain os type and ip address

Hi All,

I am using the libvirt-0.5.1.jar and downloaded from this link 
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/java.

1) To find the os type of domain I use this method getOSType(). But it 
returns the kvm or hvm instead of windows and linux. Is the any way to find 
the original os type of domain?
2) Please give is there any option or method available to find the ipaddress 
of domain?

Thanks & Regards
Rathidevi

On 01/28/2014 09:59 PM, Rathidevi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using the libvirt-0.5.1.jar and downloaded from this link
> ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/java.
> 
> 1) To find the os type of domain I use this method getOSType(). But it
> returns the kvm or hvm instead of windows and linux. Is the any way to
> find the original os type of domain?
The libvirt getOSType is probably misnamed; you are referring to the
Java bindings, but it is a wrapper around the C api virDomainGetOSType,
which in turn is merely a shorthand for accesssing part of the domain
XML for determining whether your guest is hardware-accelerated (kvm) or not.

But the question you are asking is an easy task for libguestfs; in
particular, the virt-inspector command is able to tell you quite a bit
of information about the OS running in your guest.  Libguestfs also
comes with Java bindings, but this is probably not the best list for
getting help with using libguestfs.
> 2) Please give is there any option or method available to find the
> ipaddress of domain?
Not yet.  Nehal is working on adding such an API, but it has been slow
going, because the problem is not very straightforward.

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