[TriLUG] Xen: Identifying Host from Guest

Marty Ferguson martyferg at nc.rr.com
Tue May 8 17:01:22 EDT 2007


or maybe I am making it to simplistic. 
Are you asking for a network tree equivalent to
the gnuish ps  (1) family tree option `ps -lwaxf' ???

Oops. Just call.

Marc wrote:

> I can't find anything either.  I wonder if anyone has a script that 
> could go
> on the guest that would traverse the network and gather uname-a and 
> related
> information?   I  could write something extremely simple, but I am not 
> sure
> how to  make it  gather data from other hosts.
>
>
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> On 5/2/07, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>   We've got a number of machines using Xen to host other 'machines'.
>> The guests sometimes get moved from one host to another. Is there a
>> way to identify the host from inside one of the guests? I've poked
>> around in proc and can't seem to find anything.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Ken
>>
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