[Libvir] How to deploy Virtual Machine via libvirt
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Sep 21 12:16:01 UTC 2007
Omer Khalid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >>If you already have the guest and just want to start it up, then call
> >> virDomainDefineXML followed by virDomainCreate in libvirt.
>
> What is the XML file format? And for the virDomainCreate function, what
> would be the domain parameter in Python?
The XML format is documented here:
http://libvirt.org/format.html
We can't use the Xen format directly because we have to be portable
across different hypervisors.
virDomainDefineXML returns a virDomainPtr which you can pass in to
virDomainCreate. (Or the equivalent Python functions).
Rich.
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