Show VM IP Address on Start Up

I frequently use VMs in my development projects (who doesn’t?) and when I am using a “server” version of Linux I like to log in with iTerm instead of using the tiny terminal screen VMWare presents me with. First I need to know the IP address of the VM. It almost always stays the same, but having to log in to find it is a pain.

I found instruction on how to do this on Ubuntu on this page:

http://offbytwo.com/2008/05/09/show-ip-address-of-vm-as-console-pre-login-message.html