On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Michael Johns <michaelj8982@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Before using KVM I was using Xen, and am hoping to see if I can do
> similar things in KVM. In Xen, I could watch for starting and stopping
> virtual machines by using a script which polled the XenStore, a small
> database from which small amounts of information about running
> machines which indicated the presence or not of virtual machine
> instances.
>
> I am wondering whether there is a similar mechanism I may be able to
> use in KVM? I have been messing around with it and looking around
> online for about a week now, but there just doesn't seem to be
> anything which I can use in the same way.
>
If you are using libvirt, you could do something like
[root@vmhost ~]# virsh list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------
2 ubuntu-desktop-86 running
- centos-64 shut off
- crackdev shut off
[root@vmhost ~]#
and do some parsing. There are probably better ways to do it though.
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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