[libvirt] Xen config files again

[Thomas Moyer]

You told me earlier that I can pass the name of the VM (which has a  
corresponding .cfg file in /etc/xen) to lookupByName() and then use  
getXMLDesc() to get information in XML format about the VM, but it  
would appear that at least the first function is only useful for  
running VM's not for VM's that are not running.

Example to clarify my goals:
	I use xen-create-image to create the VM.  It puts a config file  
called host1.cfg in /etc/xen.
	I would like to have a python script to automatically convert  
this .cfg file to something libvirt can use to start the VM.
	
	Or another option would be some automated method of creating the VM  
in a similar fashion as xen-create-image.

thanks,
tom

On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:21:36PM -0400, Thomas Moyer wrote:
>> I've seen in the src tree that there are functions to read and use  
>> Xen
>> configuration files.  Are these functions available in the Python
>> bindings or do I need to use C to get access to them?  What I am
>> mostly interested in doing is parsing the Xen config file and getting
>> back the XML version that I can store and use later on.
>
> No, these methods are for internal use only. All acccess to the Xen  
> config
> files must go via the public interfaces and XML format. Internally  
> we use
> the config file API to convert from XML into the config file format  
> and
> vica-verca
>
> Daniel
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