[Xen-users] Re: Communicating with VM before Network is configured.

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 OK, but then how do I know which is the IP with which the new VM got 
configured? I think there should be some way to communicate; something like 
what Vmware provides, which seems like a general purpose mechanism to me.

 Thanks.

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:: Ligesh :: http://ligesh.com 




On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:00:09PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 02:22:40AM -0400, Ligesh wrote:
> >  How do we do the same on a windows VM? On a remote hosting setup, it is 
> > always preferable to assign static ips to the virtual machines. DHCP is 
> > cumbersome method to manage ip addresses.
> 
>   Sorry I must have missed the reference to Windows.
> 
>   I imagine you could write a small script in VBScrip/JScript and
>  place it in the startup directory - or add a registry key to make it
>  auto-run once.
> 
>   It has been a few years since I had to do that kind of thing on
>  Windows, but I think the principle is sound.  Bootup the machine once
>  with the script to do the magic, then reboot it afterwards.
> 
>   I guess you'd need to organise yourself, so for example, you could
>  have a range of IPs to be tested and do something like this:
> 
>     base=192.168.1.100
> 
>     while( 1 )
>     {
>         if ( ping( $base ) )
>         {
>            # Address is "live"
>            base += 1;  (Note you can't do that really!)
>         }
>         else
>         {
>            # Found an unallocated IP
>            setupIP here
>            reboot
>         }
>     }
> 
>   I'd recommend you look at AutoIT for your scripting language if you've
>  not got a personal preference.  Very nice to use, and free.  (Albeit 
>  not "free".)
> 

 

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