[libvirt] Calling libvirt from C# (Mono/.Net)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

As an experiment I managed to call libvirt from C# (using Mono, but
similar code should work for .Net).  This email should give interested
people enough information to produce a proper set of bindings for
libvirt.

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using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[StructLayout (LayoutKind.Sequential)]
class NodeInfo {
  [MarshalAs (UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst=32)]
  public string model;
  public ulong memory;
  public uint cpus;
  public uint mhz;
  public uint nodes;
  public uint sockets;
  public uint cores;
  public uint threads;
}

class Connection {
  IntPtr _handle;

  [DllImport ("libvirt.so")]
  static extern IntPtr virConnectOpen ([In] string name);

  public Connection (string name) {
    _handle = virConnectOpen (name);
  }

  [DllImport ("libvirt.so")]
  static extern IntPtr virConnectClose (IntPtr h);

  ~Connection () {
    virConnectClose (_handle);
  }

  [DllImport ("libvirt.so")]
  static extern int virNodeGetInfo (IntPtr h, [Out] NodeInfo info);

  public NodeInfo nodeGetInfo () {
    NodeInfo info = new NodeInfo ();
    if (virNodeGetInfo (_handle, info) == -1) {
      // throw new LibvirtException ("virNodeGetInfo");
    }
    return info;
  }
}

class Test
{
  public static void Main ()
  {
    Connection conn = new Connection ("test:///default");
    NodeInfo info = conn.nodeGetInfo ();
    Console.WriteLine ("Results of virNodeGetInfo:");
    Console.WriteLine ("model = {0}", info.model);
    Console.WriteLine ("memory = {0}", info.memory);
    Console.WriteLine ("cpus = {0}", info.cpus);
    Console.WriteLine ("mhz = {0}", info.mhz);
    Console.WriteLine ("nodes = {0}", info.nodes);
    Console.WriteLine ("sockets = {0}", info.sockets);
    Console.WriteLine ("cores = {0}", info.cores);
    Console.WriteLine ("threads = {0}", info.threads);
  }
}
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Compile and run this code with:

  $ gmcs libvirt-test.c# 
  $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 mono ./libvirt-test.exe 

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DEBUG: libvirt.c: virInitialize (register drivers)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectOpen (name=test:///default)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (name "test:///default" to URI components:
  scheme test
  opaque (null)
  authority (null)
  server (null)
  user (null)
  port 0
  path /default
)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 0 (Test) ...)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 0 Test returned SUCCESS)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (network driver 0 Test returned SUCCESS)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (storage driver 0 Test returned SUCCESS)
DEBUG: libvirt.c: virNodeGetInfo (conn=0xa8d560, info=0x7fff9530c070)
Results of virNodeGetInfo:
model = i686
memory = 3145728
cpus = 16
mhz = 1400
nodes = 2
sockets = 2
cores = 2
threads = 2
DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectClose (conn=0xa8d560)
DEBUG: hash.c: virUnrefConnect (unref connection 0xa8d560 test:///default 1)
DEBUG: hash.c: virReleaseConnect (release connection 0xa8d560 test:///default)
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Rich.

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