On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:26:47PM -0700, John Wayne wrote: > looks like i have to use virDomain.create, however virDomain.create > needs a defined domain xmldesc as a parameter and i am not sure on how to get that Have you tried one of these? lookupByID(self, id) Try to find a domain based on the hypervisor ID number Note that this won't work for inactive domains which have an ID of -1, in that case a lookup based on the Name or UUId need to be done instead. lookupByName(self, name) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its name. lookupByUUID(self, uuid) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its UUID. lookupByUUIDString(self, uuidstr) Try to lookup a domain on the given hypervisor based on its UUID. _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users