[libvirt-users] Starting a program inside VM through libvirt
Hi again. I was just wondering if there are any support for running programs inside a VM through libvirt. From what I can see in the API the only solution I found was connecting to the VM with openConsole and running the program I want. This however seems a bit tricky through Python and I was just wondering if there are any simpler solutions. Best regards. Jørgen
On 2012年07月12日 14:43, Jørgen Nordmoen wrote:
Hi again.
I was just wondering if there are any support for running programs inside a VM through libvirt. From what I can see in the API the only solution I found was connecting to the VM with openConsole and running the program I want. This however seems a bit tricky through Python and I was just wondering if there are any simpler solutions.
libguestfs does the work. http://libguestfs.org/ And you might also want to have a look at qemu-ga, Libvirt supports to talk to qemu-ga with APIs (only a few qemu-ga commands), and anyway qemu-ga supports relatively few commands, no support for running a program inside a guest yet. Regards, Osier
Wow, thanks. That looks like what I need and much more! I'm currently looking for support for LXC and XEN, and maybe KVM later so I want a solution that is as hypervisor agnostic as possible so qemu-ga might not be as usable as libguestfs. Best regards. Jørgen 2012/7/12 Osier Yang <jyang@redhat.com>
On 2012年07月12日 14:43, Jørgen Nordmoen wrote:
Hi again.
I was just wondering if there are any support for running programs inside a VM through libvirt. From what I can see in the API the only solution I found was connecting to the VM with openConsole and running the program I want. This however seems a bit tricky through Python and I was just wondering if there are any simpler solutions.
libguestfs does the work.
And you might also want to have a look at qemu-ga, Libvirt supports to talk to qemu-ga with APIs (only a few qemu-ga commands), and anyway qemu-ga supports relatively few commands, no support for running a program inside a guest yet.
Regards, Osier
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