Do you want to set an IP address using Virsh? We can help you do it.

With Virsh, we can set an IP address for the virtual machine with a few commands.

At Bobcares, we often receive requests regarding Virsh as a part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s see how our Support Engineers set up an IP address using Virsh for our customers.

Virsh and IP address

In simple words, Virsh is a command-line interface tool for managing guests and the hypervisor.

We can use Virsh to execute scripts for the guest machine.

With the help of DHCP, we can configure network access and port forwarding in simple steps.

So setting up a static IP address in DHCP let us have a fixed IP address in our DHCP network.

Let us discuss how our Support Engineers help our customers do it.

Set IP address using Virsh commands

Recently one of our customers contacted us saying he needs to set an IP address for his virtual machine in his DHCP network. Let us discuss how our Support Engineers set it up for our customers.

First, we find the list of the network using the command

virsh net-list

Once we get the network name, we get the network information using the command

virsh net-dumpxml network_name

To configure a static IP address on the VM host we need the MAC address.

We find the MAC address of the virtual machine using the command

virsh dumpxml  | grep -i '

virsh net-edit network_name

virsh net-destroy network_name

virsh net-start network_name

virsh shutdown virtual_machine

/etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart

virsh start virtual_machine