[vbox-dev] Is it possible to retrieve the ip addresses of a guest machine?

[Aaron Lewis]

Hah It has to be two different persons who wrote the code of these commands ;-P

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> the syntax is still
>
>   VBoxManage guestproperty enumerate <UUID|VMName>
>
> so first comes 'enumerate' and after that comes a UUID or the VM name.
> This didn't change between VBox 4.2.x and VBox 4.3.x. I think this is a
> design flaw because all other VBoxManage commands ake the UUID|VNName
> first and the subcommand ('enumerate' in this case) next. But currently
> there are no intentions to change this.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
>
> On Tuesday 10 December 2013 01:18:31 Aaron Lewis wrote:
>> Hi Klaus,
>>
>> It works, thanks.
>>
>> BTW: With VBox 4.2.18 the command is "guestproperty enumerate uuid",
>> was the syntax changed in 4.3?
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Klaus Espenlaub
>>
>> <klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Aaron,
>> >
>> > On 08.12.2013 05:08, Aaron Lewis wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Is it possible to retrieve the IP address (all NICs) of a guest
>> >> machine, from a host machine?
>> >> I mean, without logging onto them and type several commands)
>> >>
>> >> (I want to do this for both Linux and Windows vms.)
>> >
>> > As long as the VMs have guest additions installed they will push the
>> > network config over to the host, check the whole list with "VBoxManage
>> > getguestproperty <vmname> enumerate"
>> >
>> > Of course this has the details of all network interfaces which the guest
>> > knows about, in the order they're enumerated by the guest OS (which can
>> > vary). To match it to the VM's network cards use the MAC address.
>> >
>> > Klaus
>
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