[Libvirt-cim] regarding creating VM using libvirt-cim

[snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]

Quoting "Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)" <raghunp at cisco.com>:

> Hi Sharad,
>
>   Thanks for the information.
>
> We need to use CIM-Schemas, defined by DMTF, to create and work on   
> VMs.  Could you please share the following,
>    - What are all soft-wares do I need to install to start working  
> on this. Would be good if you can provide step step procedure for  
> this.

It is really simple. All you need are libcmpiutil and libvirt-cim. Are  
you using pegasus cimom?

>    - What are all the hyper-visors are supported by libvirt-cim?  
> Deos it support ESX hypervisor?

KVM, Xen and linux containers.

>    - Do we have any detailed documentation/ wiki for this in  
> addition to  http://www.libvirt.org/CIM/
>
> Best Regards
> Raghu
> ________________________________________
> From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com [snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:21 PM
> To: Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)
> Subject: Re: [Libvirt-cim] regarding creating VM using libvirt-cim
>
> Quoting "Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)" <raghunp at cisco.com>:
>
>> Hi All,
>>   I am very new to libvirt-cim.   We wanted to create a VM using
>> libvirt-cim using CIM schemas. Could you please detail the steps
>> involved in this task, procedures, softwares to be installed and run,
>> docs, wikipages, blogs..etc.
>
> Hi Raghu,
>
>      Welcome to libvirt-cim.
>      Best way to learn how to use libvirt-cim is to create a VM using
> cimtest. You can download cimtest snapshot from
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=cimtest.git;a=tree. Go to cimtest directory
> and run the following command -
>
> CIM_NS=root/virt CIM_USER=<<YOUR USERNAME>> CIM_PASS=<<YOUR PASSWORD>>
> ./runtests libvirt-cim -i localhost -c -d -v KVM -g ComputerSystem -t
> 06_paused_active_suspend.py
>
> Replace <<YOUR USERNAME>> and <<YOUR PASSWORD>> with your username and
> password.
>
> You may have some missing packages that cimtest needs. Once you have
> them installed, you can follow the test to learn how VMs are created.
> There are lot more tests under cimtest which do more advanced things
> like adding disk/memeory/CPU to existing VM.
>
> Feel free to post on the mailing list if you have any more questions.
>
> -Sharad Mishra
> IBM
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Raghu
>>
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