On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:00:17PM +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> 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.
Quick python tip... you can get a list of valid APIs from the
interpretor:
$ python
import libvirt
print dir(libvirt)
...snip output...
conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///session")
print dir(conn)
...snip output...
print help(conn.lookupByID)
...snip output...
Daniel
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