Feature Request: Show IP address of the guest in Session Information

[eRadical]

In "Session Information" it would be nice to provide the IP address of the guest OS.

This way I would not need to log in into the virtual machine, issue "ifconfig" to find out the IP.

If this is only possible after VBoxAdditions... it's ok too.

[frank]

Just hover over the network icon of the VM (after the Additions are running)...

[eRadical]

Replying to frank:

Just hover over the network icon of the VM (after the Additions are running)...

You're right indeed but if it's started with VBoxHeadless I can't do that.

I have found a way to find out the IP... but I believe it's a little bit too much:

VBoxManage guestproperty enumerate {`VBoxManage list runningvms | awk -F"{" '{print $2}'` | grep \
IP | awk -F"," '{print $2}' | awk '{print $2}'

Can we please have a shortcut... for both cli & Session Information ?

[frank]

Well, if you are talking about the session information then you are not talking about a headless VM, are you? And what a shortcut do you mean? And the guest properties don't need to be enumerated of course, you can fetch the item you are interested in.

[eRadical]

Virtual Box Manager is running.
A virtual machine is started with VBoxHeadless.

In Virtual Box Manager I would like to get IP from "Session Information".
In command line it would be nice:

VBoxManage list ip [<uuid>|<name>]

• Without argument would list each running vm with it's IP
  
• With argument would list only that running vm IP

[frank]

Try

VBoxManage guestproperty enumerate VM_NAME | grep "Net.*V4.*IP"

[denis-aes]

I've implemented script for node.js to list rinning vbox machines and there network addresses. Checked in Windows / OS X. Should work in Linux.

 https://github.com/denis-aes/vmip