Thanks man ;). By any chance if a system VM does not get its ip assigned, would there be any way to debug and check what is going on? I mean, if after it is running on the physical host it does respond on the IP that was assigned to it.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 04/07/2014 12:33 AM, Rafael Weingartner wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> I was wondering how a system vm gets an IP address. I know they are the >> first things that CS needs in order to start up others VMs, so when they >> start there is no virtual router to assign IP addresses via DHCP. >> >> > Via a local virtio socket from the hypervisor in KVM mode. The VM boots > and via that local serial socket it gets the IP-address. > > > I also noticed that on the physical hosts with the VM.Start command CS >> sends some extra data that includes the IPs that the VM should get. >> However, I have no idea how it actually gets those parameters and set its >> IP. >> > > The management server sends this information to the KVM agent. User > Instances get the IP address via DHCP from the VR, System VMs via the local > serial socket. > > Wido > > > >> Does anyone here know how it works? >> >> -- Rafael Weingärtner
