How to determine IP address of guest operating system in qemu?

Question

After I boot a Windows XP in qemu it gets an IP assigned from DHCP server. My question is - how do I determine the IP that Windows XP got assigned, so that I can connect to Windows XP?

Here are more details about my setup:

I run dnsmasq on tun0 interface. I've set it up to give IPs from range 10.10.10.0/24. I use -net tun for qemu. I run multiple Windows XP guest installations so I can't use static IP addresses.

JdeHaan · Answer

If you start it you know the host name.  With that you query your (proprerly configured of course) dns. It is DNSmasq after all.

trosos · Answer

The list of dnsmasq's leases is stored in a file that is specified in the configuration option dhcp-leasefile. For the upstream version, the default location is /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases.

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