Hello Andrea,
On 12/05/2011 10:01 PM, Andrea Turli wrote:
I've still a question regarding this functionality: let's say I restart
a vm after a change to the NIC (from NAT to bridged) I'd expect to see
the new IP address immediately, but instead there is a "latency". Is
there a way to avoid this kind of cache?
Not really, I'm afraid. The problem is that it is the Guest Additions
which update the information (I seem to recall that they poll for it
every few seconds), and that they don't become active until some point
towards the end of the machine's boot process. At best you could hack
the VM setup a bit (say the numbers in the init scripts) to get them
active earlier in the boot process.
Regards,
Michael
Thanks,
Andrea
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Michael Thayer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Andrea,
On 12/04/2011 10:27 PM, Andrea Turli wrote:
I'm trying to use this command
VBoxManage guestproperty enumerate <vmname>
to retrieve the IP address of a machine.
Even if the VM is shutdown I retreve the properties of the vm.
Is there a way to flush the cache of this command?
I think this question belonged on
<vbox-users-community@lists.__sourceforge.net
<mailto:[email protected]>> or the forums,
not the developer list (follow-up there please!) In any case, Guest
Properties are not deleted when a virtual machine shuts down unless
they are explicitly marked as "transient", which a quick look at the
code suggests is not the case for the IP address (presumably so that
people can query the last IP address an adapter in a machine was
using before it was shut down). So there is no cache to delete and
this is intended behaviour (so that you don't have to worry about
whether a machine is running or not to set or query its properties,
and can "leave messages" for a machine which is currently shut down).
Regards,
Michael
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