On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:38:18PM +0530, anuj rampal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to call the libvirt API from my Windows machine. > > When i try to create to a Domain using "virDomainDefineXML" function > > I have to pass an XML file containing the Description of the Domain. > > Here is the part of the XML file that im using: > > <domain type='qemu' id='1'> > .. > .. > <devices> > <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator> > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/> > <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> > </disk> > <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> > <source file='/home/anuj/ISOs/WinXpSp3/Windows_XP_SP3.iso'/> > <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> > <readonly/> > </disk> > .. > .. > </domain> > > <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/> > This is the path which contains the img file for the Domain. > > I have created this file using this command: > > qemu-img create -f raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img 10G > > *Now: my question is:* > > Is there a way by which i can create this img file using some libvirt call > directly and then use this for my domain creation. Yes, you want to use the 'virStoragePool' APIs to create a directory based storage pool. You can then use the virStorageVol APIs to create individual files in that directory, including qcow2, raw, vmdk, etc files. 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 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list