IP isn’t showing.

[AllyPallies]

Cockpit version: Latest
OS: Ubuntu
Page: VM page

looked everywhere I can’t figure out why my VM’s fail to show IP’s of the VM it’s using.

Steps to reproduce

1. Head to the VM page
   2.click on any VM
   3.head to the network interface I’m unable to see the VM’s IP for FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Windows I’m very unclear how to fix this or what package the VM’s need to install.

[KKoukiou]

@AllyPallies what's the output of:

$ sudo virsh domifaddr my-vm 

Does that contain an IP? Something like this:

 Name       MAC address          Protocol     Address
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 vnet0      52:54:00:b3:58:51    ipv4         192.168.122.225/24

If there is an IP listed there you should see it also in the VM details.
Make sure to replace 'my-vm' with your VM's name.

Also please note the exact cockpit-machines version, latest varies per distrobution and distro release so it's not very enlightening.

[AllyPallies]

@KKoukiou No that isnt showing anything honestly its like a package is missing or something odd is going on.
here is the output
willzor@mainserver:~$ sudo virsh domifaddr OpenSense
[sudo] password for willzor:
Name MAC address Protocol Address

willzor@mainserver:~$ sudo virsh list
Id Name State

1 pfsense running
2 FreeNAS running
4 OpenSense running

willzor@mainserver:~$ sudo virsh domifaddr FreeNAS
Name MAC address Protocol Address

When i look at the VM display i get this

bridge | virtio | 52:54:00:69:7e:81 | Unknown | vmbridge1 | up
the IP should be where the "Unknown" part is. as i said im unsure whats going on but it sure feels like a package is missing or something super simple.

[KKoukiou]

@AllyPallies as you show above, it's not a problem of the UI, the cli can't detect any IP address either. Check this thread here, https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/549474/163281

It has to do with how you have configured the NICs of your VM. I will move this issue to the discussion section, since it is something specific to your confuguration and I 'd like to keep issues list for generic bugs.

[AllyPallies]

That "thread" commands gave me zero results, commands didnt help in the slightist if you would like the close this thread please provide help as its either a "bug" or a VAILD question that needs to be answered.

[AllyPallies]

@KKoukiou i don’t use IPV6 I’m using IPv4 looking over your “edit” I see it’s only IPv6 so that fix doesn’t work exactly for me.

[KKoukiou]

My PR constitutes of two commits, you 're interested in the first 8d5937c

The second adds ipv6 for the ones who use it.

In anycase, this issue is a duplicate of #61

[AllyPallies]

I can see you fixed this how would I update to this version to allow it to work? Do I have to manually edit the files or anyway to pull them without causing massive issues?

[KKoukiou]

It has to be merged, then released (probably in 244) and then get to ubuntu backports.

[KKoukiou]

The patch is merged #151
Will be released in 244.