Physical hostname?

jera45 · 05-23-2017, 02:55 PM

I am running a Red Hat rel 7 Linux VM. How can I find the hostname of the physical host?

BW-userx · 05-23-2017, 03:19 PM

https://www.computerhope.com/unix/uhostnam.htm

hostname

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1381903

sorry didn't catch that VBox looking for the hosts hostname sorry

273 · 05-23-2017, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jera45

I am running a Red Hat rel 7 Linux VM. How can I find the hostname of the physical host?

You can answer that yourself by stating how they are networked and why you want to do this.

jefro · 05-23-2017, 04:39 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ.

I may not fully understand your question. Your question suggests more than a simple computer with a single OS on it.

However if it is such a simple question then the usual way is to do as above and use the command hostname in a terminal or shell.

AwesomeMachine · 05-24-2017, 12:35 AM

If I understand correctly, you want to find the host host name from inside a guest VM. The whole purpose of VMs is isolation, so I don't think it's possible. You could configure "bridged" networking. That gives the VM its own network connection, vs NAT, which translates a unique address but really uses the host connection.

JJJCR · 05-25-2017, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jera45

I am running a Red Hat rel 7 Linux VM. How can I find the hostname of the physical host?

just type hostname, on the physical host of course.