how to assign a ip address and mask from cli for the vm which is created in remote server

Hi all,


I have installed ovf tool in my ubuntu server and and used the ovftool command line interface to create vm on the remote server. Now i need to assign an IP address to that VM from the cli. Can someone please let me know how can i do that.?  As we know, we have --nic option in which we can pass IP address i believe. But can someone let me know how to use that command. It will be great help if you could provide me some examples along with this.


Thanks,


Naga./