[libvirt] Create a Domain from windows client
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 10:41:55 UTC 2009
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:38:18PM +0530, anuj rampal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to call the libvirt API from my Windows machine.
>
> When i try to create to a Domain using "virDomainDefineXML" function
>
> I have to pass an XML file containing the Description of the Domain.
>
> Here is the part of the XML file that im using:
>
> <domain type='qemu' id='1'>
> ..
> ..
> <devices>
> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/>
> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
> </disk>
> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> <source file='/home/anuj/ISOs/WinXpSp3/Windows_XP_SP3.iso'/>
> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
> <readonly/>
> </disk>
> ..
> ..
> </domain>
>
> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img'/>
> This is the path which contains the img file for the Domain.
>
> I have created this file using this command:
>
> qemu-img create -f raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXp.img 10G
>
> *Now: my question is:*
>
> Is there a way by which i can create this img file using some libvirt call
> directly and then use this for my domain creation.
Yes, you want to use the 'virStoragePool' APIs to create a directory based
storage pool. You can then use the virStorageVol APIs to create individual
files in that directory, including qcow2, raw, vmdk, etc files.
Daniel
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