On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:51:40AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > I've been working on a virtinst API to build and install xml > for libvirt storage objects. The current version is attached: > so far only nfs, filesystem and dir pools are implemented, as > well as their associated file volumes, but the remainder will > be mostly a cut and paste job. I have some UI wizards for > building these in virt-manager mostly complete, so this has > been tested to be pretty solid, though there is still some clean > up that needs doing. I think this is generally sound - the proof of any such API is how well it suits its users, so if it works well for virt-manager and virt-install CLI then go for it. > The general workflow is as follows: > > ========================================= > import virtinst.Storage.StoragePool as sp > > # This gives the appropriate class for the specified pool type > pool_class = sp.get_pool_class(sp.TYPE_FOO) > > # Only required params are a conn/uri and name. Default formats > # and target paths have default values, but source paths/ > # devices and hostnames obviously have no sensible default, but > # they still aren't required for object instantiation > pool = pool_class(name="foo", uri="xen:///") Should proably allow a existing connection to be passed in, otherwise this class has to deal with authentication issues too. 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 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
