[snip] >> I was thinking of something like: >> domain.get_attribute("vncdisplay") >> >> Because it's a shame to have to use virsh as a wrapper (or XML file >> parsing) and re-do all the work that was done to get to the domain >> object when all your really want is just an attribute.. > > You can already do that very simply in python using lxml > > from lxml import etree > tree = etree.parse(domain.XMLDesc()) > r = tree.xpath('/domain/devices/graphics[@type='vnc']/@port') > Hmmm, cant seem to get that to work: libvirt_server_util.py", line 159, in detect_session_vncdisplay tree = etree.parse(domain.XMLDesc(0)) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2692, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:49594) File "parser.pxi", line 1500, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71364) File "parser.pxi", line 1529, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71647) File "parser.pxi", line 1429, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:70742) File "parser.pxi", line 975, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67740) File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63824) File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64745) File "parser.pxi", line 563, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64060) IOError: Error reading file '<domain type='qemu' id='1'> <name>Test</name> <uuid>bd4aa2fa-a086-e8b2-8bc5-1de3fc591958</uuid> ... </domain> ': failed to load external entity "<domain type='qemu' id='1'> <name>Test</name> ... </domain> " -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list