KVM+libvirt – Get List of DHCP Clients

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I have several VMs running on Ubuntu 9.10 via KVM+libvirt. I want to be able to find out the IP address that has been assigned to each host without physically opening a physical "console" to each machine and invoking ifconfig.

Consider:

rascher@localhost:~$ virsh -c qemu:///system list --all
Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
 Id Name                 State
----------------------------------
  1 machine1          running
  2 machine2          running
  - machine3          shut off

My network configuration looks like:

<network>
  <name>default</name>
  <uuid>1be...</uuid>
  <forward mode='route' dev="eth0"/>
  <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' forwardDelay='0' />
  <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
    <dhcp>
      <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254' />
    </dhcp>
  </ip>
</network>

So how can I get a listing which says:

machine1 IP address = 192.168.122.16
machine2 IP address = 192.168.122.238
...

I played with arp:

rascher@localhost:~$ arp
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
192.168.122.238          ether   00:16:36:00:61:b0   C                     virbr0
192.168.122.16           ether   00:16:36:52:e8:9c   C                     virbr0
...

But this doesn't map to a virtual machine's ID.

Is there some tool (via the command line, virsh or virt-*) I can ascertain this information? Or do I need to have some fancy script which runs on each individual VM, checks its own IP, and reports it back to the host OS?

Best Answer

This feature was requested a long time ago. Now libvirt supports it by providing two new commands: domifaddr and net-dhcp-leases

 Usage: domifaddr <domain> [interface] [--full] [--source lease|agent]

 Example outputs:
 virsh # domifaddr f20 --source agent
 Name       MAC address          Protocol     Address
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 lo         00:00:00:00:00:00    ipv4         127.0.0.1/8
 -          -                    ipv6         ::1/128
 eth0       52:54:00:2e:45:ce    ipv4         10.1.33.188/24
 -          -                    ipv6         2001:db8:0:f101::2/64
 -          -                    ipv6         fe80::5054:ff:fe2e:45ce/64
 eth1       52:54:00:b1:70:19    ipv4         192.168.105.201/16
 -          -                    ipv4         192.168.201.195/16
 -          -                    ipv6         2001:db8:ca2:2:1::bd/128
 eth2       52:54:00:36:2a:e5    N/A          N/A
 eth3       52:54:00:20:70:3d    ipv4         192.168.105.240/16
 -          -                    ipv6         fe80::5054:ff:fe20:703d/64

 virsh # domifaddr f20 --full
 Name       MAC address          Protocol     Address
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 vnet0      52:54:00:2e:45:ce    ipv6         2001:db8:0:f101::2/64
 vnet1      52:54:00:b1:70:19    ipv4         192.168.105.201/16
 vnet1      52:54:00:b1:70:19    ipv6         2001:db8:ca2:2:1::bd/128
 vnet3      52:54:00:20:70:3d    ipv4         192.168.105.240/16

 virsh # domifaddr f20 eth0 --source agent --full
 Name       MAC address          Protocol     Address
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 eth0       52:54:00:2e:45:ce    ipv4         10.1.33.188/24
 eth0       52:54:00:2e:45:ce    ipv6         2001:db8:0:f101::2/128
 eth0       52:54:00:2e:45:ce    ipv6         fe80::5054:ff:fe2e:45ce/64

For eth0, ipv6 is managed by libvirt, but ipv4 is not.
For eth1, the second IP is created using ip aliasing.
For eth2, there is no IP configured as of yet.
For eth3, only ipv4 has been configured.
fd00::/8 are private ipv6 ranges. Hence not visible through --source lease

In a different scenario:

 Example Usage: net-dhcp-leases <network> [mac]

 virsh # net-dhcp-leases --network default6
 Expiry Time          MAC address        Protocol  IP address                Hostname        Client ID or DUID
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 2014-06-16 03:40:14  52:54:00:85:90:e2  ipv4      192.168.150.231/24        fedora20-test   01:52:54:00:85:90:e2
 2014-06-16 03:40:17  52:54:00:85:90:e2  ipv6      2001:db8:ca2:2:1::c0/64   fedora20-test   00:04:b1:d8:86:42:e1:6a:aa:cf:d5:86:94:23:6f:94:04:cd
 2014-06-16 03:34:42  52:54:00:e8:73:eb  ipv4      192.168.150.181/24        ubuntu14-vm     -
 2014-06-16 03:34:46  52:54:00:e8:73:eb  ipv6      2001:db8:ca2:2:1::5b/64   -               00:01:00:01:1b:30:c6:aa:52:54:00:e8:73:eb
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