Omer Khalid wrote:
Hi,
I have been using libvirt in my python software for a while just to get
deployed domain information. Usually I create a xen configuration file
with all the parameters and trigger a "xm create -f file" command to
deploy the VM.
The problem I have noticed since some time is that as this command is
forwarded from Python to Xen, and no error code is returned; I loose
track if the domain deployment request fails which is rare but happens.
So I thought to use libvirt for virtual machine deployment, and wondered
if there are python bindings which I could use. I also try to look up
for some kind of small example code to deploy a VM via libvirt on the
libvirt site but didn't succeed to find. Can any body help me out with
their experience?
There are low-level calls within libvirt, but if you want to install a
new guest (eg. from an ISO) it's best to use virt-install.
(
http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel,
http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html)
Code examples can be found in virt-manager.
If you already have the guest and just want to start it up, then call
virDomainDefineXML followed by virDomainCreate in libvirt.
Rich.
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