9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
4:31 p.m.
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* not everything is exposed via libvirt: virsh can retrieve vncdisplay but libvirt (or at least the python bindings) does not. How come? This happens to be one thing I need for writing a libvirt backend for my virtual desktop software.
The 'virsh vncdisplay' command is simply fetching the XML doc for the guest and then extracting the VNC port using a xpath expression
/domain/devices/graphics[@type='vnc']/@port
So for python you'd want to just get an XML handling module and do similar. Yes, I saw that in the virsh code. Shouldn't this be part of the libvirt api proper?? Isn't it supposed to shield us from dealing with files and XML?
Cheers Antoine