Re: [libvirt-users] [API reference] Are there XML-handling API to retrieve info directly from xml configure file

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:36:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 03:24:25PM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote: > > Hi, everyone > > > >     I'm writing a application using libvirt and need to query guest > > os's virtual network interface usage, like bytes read or written > > through a given interface. I know int > > virDomainInterfaceStats(virDomainPtr dom, const char * path, > >             virDomainInterfaceStatsPtr stats,  size_t size) is designed for my > > purpose but I 'm not sure how I determine the second parameter path. > > I'm now think of determining the virtual interface by parsing the > > domain's xml configure file. > > But I don't find that libvirt  supply such functions, that means, I > > have to resort to other library lik libxml? > > I would also really like to see such an API/APIs in the basic > libvirt API. The libvirt-gconfig library provides this capability. NB, the libvirt-gconfig library is strictly independant of libvirt-gobject, since it is intended that you can use the libvirt-gconfig XML handling APIs, with the plain C libvirt APIs. Regards, Daniel