On May 9, 2012, at 4:26 PM, John Wayne <m01z04-libvirt@yahoo.com> wrote:

hi,

i am a bit confused on how to start an inactive domain using the python bindings, any help would be appreciated. (inactive as in the domain was created with virConnect.defineXML sometime in the past)

looks like i have to use virDomain.create, however virDomain.create needs a defined domain xmldesc as a parameter and i am not sure on how to get that

i guess if virConnect.create was happening right after virConnect.defineXML i could get the return value of virConnect.defineXML and pass that onto virDomain.create. however, since the domain was created sometime in the past, i am not sure on how to get the domain ptr which virDomain.create needs

thanks

John, I think you are confusing methods. libvirt.virDomain.create() just takes a virDomain object while libvirt.virConnect.createXML() takes an xmldesc. $ python

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import libvirt conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///system") dom = conn.lookupByName("my-machine") dom.create()

Should do the trick. -- Doug Goldstein

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:26:47PM -0700, John Wayne wrote:

looks like i have to use virDomain.create, however virDomain.create needs a defined domain xmldesc as a parameter and i am not sure on how to get that

Have you tried one of these? lookupByID(self, id) Try to find a domain based on the hypervisor ID number Note that this won't work for inactive domains which have an ID of -1, in that case a lookup based on the Name or UUId need to be done instead. lookupByName(self, name) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its name. lookupByUUID(self, uuid) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its UUID. lookupByUUIDString(self, uuidstr) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its UUID.