chetan saundankar wrote:
Hi all,I am new to Libvirt. I have few questions on how to create a guest domain using libvirt, 1. I want to create a guest and say install FC6 in it. Can it be done using "virDomainCreate" or "virDomainCreateLinux" calls? and specifying iso image in Domain description XML e.g.
Yes, you would use virDomainCreateLinux. Despite the name, this is the call for creating guests of many different types.
virDomainCreate is slightly different -- it takes a domain which already exists but is shut down ("defined" in the terminology) and starts it running. Basically the same as 'virsh start'.
Now while it is possible to create the XML by hand for virDomainCreateLinux (see: http://libvirt.org/format.html) we also have a library and command-line tool for doing it, and depending on what you need that might be easier to use: "virt-install" from http://www.virt-manager.org/scmrepo.html
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<source file='/root/chelsea/fc6-x86.iso '/>
<target dev='hdc'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
You need the complete XML, see http://libvirt.org/format.html .
2. In the Domain Description XML for Fully virtualized guests there is <uuid> tag so if the above mentioned method is used to create guests then is it the callers responsibility to provide a unique uuid?
I looked at the code and it seems like it is up to xend to create a UUID if you don't supply one in the XML. Therefore you'd be relying on xend to do this.
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