On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:38:18PM +0530, anuj rampal wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to call the libvirt API from my Windows machine.

When i try to create to a Domain using "virDomainDefineXML" function

I have to pass an XML file containing the Description of the Domain.

Here is the part of the XML file that im using:

<domain type='qemu' id='1'> .. .. <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <source file='/home/anuj/ISOs/WinXpSp3/Windows_XP_SP3.iso'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> </disk> .. .. </domain>

<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/> This is the path which contains the img file for the Domain.

I have created this file using this command:

qemu-img create -f raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img 10G

*Now: my question is:*

Is there a way by which i can create this img file using some libvirt call directly and then use this for my domain creation.

Yes, you want to use the 'virStoragePool' APIs to create a directory based storage pool. You can then use the virStorageVol APIs to create individual files in that directory, including qcow2, raw, vmdk, etc files. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|