How to find host-name of virtual machine when its down

Question

I have a situation where in I know IP Address of the VM but hostname info is not available. Currently VM is down. So, is there any way to find out host name ?

Answer 1

virt-cat is useful but you have to tell which OS ?

For debian systems you can try this command in the host

# virt-cat Debian6x64 /etc/hostname

For windows you can try this

# virt-win-reg Win7x32 \
  'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters' \
  Hostname

Also you can use virt-inspector . Have a look at here