On 02/24/2014 05:09 PM, vikhyath reddy wrote: [Please don't top-post on technical lists] > Thanks for the replies guys, libvirt-glib sure sounds interesting. On the > other hand I was able to leave libvirt.so alone and write my own wrapper > (based on libvirt/examples) for easy calls from NodeJS. I can get to list > VMs, their config etc. from node but not able to list the operating system > running on the VM (ubuntu, win7, etc.). I can get the os_type though (hvm > in my case) but that does not tell me whether it is running a windows or a > linux distro. Libvirt can't tell you what the guest is running. For that, you need higher-level software, such as libguestfs. virt-manager is an example of a program that uses libguestfs to probe which OS is running in the guest. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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