On 05/08/2012 09:58 AM, John Wayne wrote: Please see the above error message carefully, you're calling a error function name, it should be 'createXML' not 'CreateXML': ['UUID', 'UUIDString', 'XMLDesc', '__del__', '__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', 'autostart', 'build', 'connect', 'create', '*createXML*', 'createXMLFrom', 'delete', 'destroy', 'info', 'isActive', 'isPersistent', 'listVolumes', 'name', 'numOfVolumes', 'refresh', 'setAutostart', 'storageVolLookupByName', 'undefine'] > > my code is: > xmldesc="xml description of storage volume which i got from sudo virsh > vol-dumpxml" > > #get a storage pool object to use in creating a volume > storagepoolobject=libvirt.virConnect.storagePoolLookupByName(conn,'poolname') > > #now try to create the volume using the above storage pool object > libvirt.virStoragePool.CreateXML(storagepoolobject,xmldesc,0) > > > from python: > -bash-4.1$ python > >>> import libvirt > >> ['UUID', 'UUIDString', 'XMLDesc', '__del__', '__doc__', '__init__', > '__module__', 'autostart', 'build', 'connect', 'create', 'createXML', > 'createXMLFrom', 'delete', 'destroy', 'info', 'isActive', > 'isPersistent', 'listVolumes', 'name', 'numOfVolumes', 'refresh', > 'setAutostart', 'storageVolLookupByName', 'undefine'] > > >>> help(libvirt.virStoragePool.createXML) > Help on method createXML in module libvirt: > > createXML(self, xmldesc, flags) unbound libvirt.virStoragePool method > Create a storage volume within a pool based > on an XML description. Not all pools support > creation of volumes > > from the libvirt.org documentation: > http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virStorageVolCreateXML > virStorageVolPtrvirStorageVolCreateXML(virStoragePoolPtr pool, > const char * xmldesc, > unsigned int flags) > Create a storage volume within a pool based on an XML description. Not > all pools support creation of volumes > pool:pointer to storage pool > xmldesc:description of volume to create > flags:extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0 > Returns:the storage volume, or NULL on error > > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users