All -
Let me introduce myself. I am W. David Ashley, the primary author of the
"Libvirt Application Development Guide Using Python" which will soon be
published on the libvirt.org web site. I hope all of you will enjoy the
new guide when it becomes available.
I have multiple decades of experience in writing documentation and
training guides and I have about eight years of experience using libvirt
and qemu/kvm virtual machines. Most of that experience was in creating
and maintaining VM on-demand systems.
In the meantime, I am planning a new guide and I would appreciate some
feedback from the libvirt user community concerning the potential
usefulness and contents of the new guide. The proposed title of the
guide will be "Automating Virtual Machines". The current (very) rough
outline is:
Introduction
Intro to virtual machines
Installing virtual machines
Using virtual machines
Using Python to access VMs
A sample problem
Problem statement
Solution requirements
Using VMs to solve the problem
New problems introduced by using VMs
How to programmatically access VMs
Intro to the python libvirt module
How to connect to a VM
How to access and control a guest domain
Information the python libvirt module can not provide
Storing information about VMs
Deciding what information should be stored
Using simple text files
Using a simple database
Securing your information
How to set up a VM on demand environment
Discovering a VMs ip address
Using cron to start processes
Starting up a VM
Invoking a program on the VM
Using SSH to access a VM
Shutting down a VM
Alternatives to starting/stopping a VM
Using the libvirt guest agent
Installing the libvirt guest agent
Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS
openSuse, SuSE
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint
Using (querying) the libvirt guest agent
Logging VM activities
Host activities
VM activities
Securing your VMs
Host security
VM security
Any feedback/suggestions you have will be appreciated and I assure you
they will be given serious consideration. At this point, nothing has
been written except this rough outline so this is your chance to help
form the contents or even make suggestions for a completely different guide.
Feel free to post back to this list or send me private email.
W. David Ashley
w.david.ashley@xxxxxxxxx
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