The 28/07/11, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 28.07.2011 19:50, schrieb Matthias Bolte: > Only having virsh on windows seems a bit pointless for my needs, as a > putty-session to my linux-hosts does the same CLI-based stuff ... or am > I wrong? > > If I were more of a coder I would maybe be able to hack something on top > of that, small binary showing "domain importantVM is running" and giving > the chance to start/stop it. Not more. > > Just think of the boss at your customers site. They need their server > and they should be able to simply start it when the power went down or > somthing, and for some reason libvirt does not start the domain even as > it has been set to autostart (I have one of those!). We have the exact same needs. We want our customers to be able to just start/stop VMs and check the state of the machines. Honestly, I've been disappointed in the past by the libvirt API changing too fast (breaking our "snapshot-to-the-NAS" tool). This is why I rely on virsh commands rather than libvirt directly, for now. I've already started something using the same backend logic but it's not finished and too dirty to be published. I wonder if libvirt-php couldn't add some very simple API (not moving so far) for our particular use case. If so, I may start a (very simple) web interface. I guess it would be enough for most users. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
