[ubuntu-us-mi] IP address of VM running in bridge mode

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Citek<robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've started up a headless VirtualBox VM in bridged networking mode so
> that it has an IP address from the network DHCP server.  That is, this
> VM appears as just another machine on the network of hundreds of
> machines.  The host is running virtualbox-ose 2.1.4-dfsg-1ubuntu3 on
> Ubuntu 9.04 and the guest is Ubuntu 8.10.  From using VBoxManage, I
> know the guest VM's MAC address.
>
> Given that I do not have access to the DHCP server, is there a way to
> find out what the guest VM's IP address is, perhaps using some kind of
> tool on the host machine?
>
> So far googling and looking through the manual have not been fruitful,
> although I could be overlooking something obvious.
>

The obvious would be ping or nslookup but are you looking to determine
what guest is on a particular host by IP?