Check VM's IP address from the host

In this post, we talk about how to check the IP address of VM from the host machine.

Guests using NAT

There is a built-in dhcp server in qemu/virtio. And one can check the guests’ IP address from the host machine by running

virsh net-dhcp-leases <network_name>

where the <network_name> is the name of your virtio network, which can be checked by

virsh net-list -all

Guests using bridged network

One can use the tool …