On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:12 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I think it would be useful to have a libvirt-events daemon that > listened > for these async events via our public API & invoked scripts upon > certain > scenarios. This is obviously separate from the synchronous hooks. > FWIW, a few days ago I wrote a small event watcher perl script based on one of the test scripts in libvirt-perl to print out machine start and stop events and the used interface name. The main program looks like this: ###################### my $ev = Sys::Virt::Event::Simple->new(); my $conn = Sys::Virt->new(uri => $URI); my @events; $conn->domain_event_register( sub { my $con = shift; my $dom = shift; my $event = shift; my $detail = shift; printf("event handler: " . $con->get_uri() . ", " . $dom->get_name() . ", $event, $detail\n"); push @events, [$con, $dom, $event, $detail]; }); while (1) { my $no_of_ev = int(@events); $ev->run_once(); printf("no of ev : $no_of_ev \n" ); printf("uri : " . $events[$no_of_ev]->[0]->get_uri()); printf("\n" ); printf("name : " . $events[$no_of_ev]->[1]->get_name()); printf("\n" ); my $xmldesc = $events[$no_of_ev]->[1]->get_xml_description(); my $ifname = get_ifname($xmldesc); print "ifname = $ifname\n"; printf("\n" ); } $conn->domain_event_deregister; $conn = undef; ###################### Current output looks like this: ###################### event handler: qemu:///system, f12a, 2, 0 no of ev : 0 uri : qemu:///system name : f12a ifname = macvtap0 event handler: qemu:///system, f12, 5, 0 no of ev : 1 uri : qemu:///system name : f12 ifname = macvtap1 ###################### Having an architected events daemon in libvirt would certainly be a good idea in my opinion. -- Best regards, Gerhard Stenzel, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list