On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/29/11 - 09:34:17AM, David M. Barlieb wrote: >> Hi, I'm fairly new to using libvirt. I have RHEL6 servers running KVM >> virtual environment. As I understand it, libvirt provides the tools to >> the KVM environment so that I can create domains or virtual guests. So, >> that being said, what does this ruby-libvirt provide me or enhance given >> my current setup. >> >> >> >> I'll understabnd if this is a little rudimentary but I really do not >> know who or where else to ask these types of question. I get quite a bit >> of email from the libvirt-users groups about libvirt and really have no >> idea if I can or should put any of these into my current setup, or if I >> should be asking RedHat this. >> >> >> >> I certainly wouldn't mind testing and contributing to these effort to >> enhance the libvirt tools and KVM hypervisor but think I need a better >> understanding of exactly how libvirt and KVM interact and what the >> enhancements bring to the table. > > In the future it is usually best to keep one of the lists on an email; that > way, if I'm away or not responding, someone else can help you. I've added > libvirt-users to this response. > > In any case, you have the right idea. Libvirt is a control plane for various > different virtualization solutions. Arguably the most popular virtualization > solution that libvirt can control is KVM, but it can also manage Xen, VMware > ESX, LXC (linux containers), UML, etc. > > Libvirt provides both tools (like virsh and libvirtd) and APIs for interacting > with virtual machines. The APIs are things like virDomainShutdown(), > virDomainReboot(), etc. The ruby-libvirt package is a thin wrapper around > these APIs, so that you can use this functionality from ruby programs. That > is, you would be able to do something like: > > dom.reboot > dom.shutdown > > from your ruby programs. There are also bindings for other languages such > as python, php, and perl. > > There is a lot more information at http://libvirt.org, and there is more > information specifically about the ruby bindings at http://libvirt.org/ruby > If you find the binding a bit hard to follow, I've tried to create plain ruby objects on top of Chris awesome ruby bindings. See more at: https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt#readme Ohad > -- > Chris Lalancette > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users >
