[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] List IPs of VM Ifaces

[Crístian Deives]

Reviewed-by: Crístian Deives <cristiandeives at gmail.com>

However, I'm worried with the DHCP lease code. AFAIU, it only works if 
the guest system has a predictable IP mechanism (i.e. static IP or a 
DHCP server which always assigns the same IP address to the same MAC). I 
tried "GET /vms/<vm>/ifaces/<iface>/ips" on a shutoff VM and I got the 
IP address the VM had when it was running. That's most probably the same 
address it will use on next boot, but we can't be sure of that, that 
depends on the guest network configuration and/or the external DHCP 
server. I guess even the ARP code might not be always correct, so I 
guess both approaches has their faults. This patch fetches the most 
likely IP address the guest VM has, which should be correct on most of 
the times, so I think this is good enough for the end user. I just don't 
feel it's 100% trustworthy - but maybe 99% :-)

On 03-06-2015 12:06, Christy Perez wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Christy Perez <christy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   docs/API.md                  |  1 +
>   src/kimchi/mockmodel.py      |  9 +++++++++
>   src/kimchi/model/vmifaces.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tests/test_rest.py           |  6 ++++++
>   4 files changed, 44 insertions(+)