[CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> On 16-Jul-10 19:17, Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
>> On 07/17/2010 12:39 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>>> The domU got it's ip from the corporate DHCP server, which is what I
>>> intended (that's why I'm running bridged, I'm using virtual servers to
>>> separate functions while conserving physical boxes, so I want them to
>>> present as separate systems to users on the network).
>>
>> An alternative, if you have some control over the DHCP server, might be
>> to enforce a mapping of MAC addresses to IPs.  You can pretty much set
>> you guest MAC addresses to whatever you want so long as they don't
>> conflict with anything else.
>
> In the long run, they'll be static; but at the moment the permanent IPs
> haven't been assigned, and I'm just letting them pick something up via
> corporate DHCP (to avoid conflicting with anything else on the network).
>   It's at this early experimental stage that it'd be handy to find out
> externally what they ended up being.

Haven't really been following this thread, but why not set the guests VMs
up with 192.168 IPs, and let the host serve DHCP with masquerading to
them?

       mark