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

[snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]

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

> Yes. I have installed Pegasus, libcmpiutil and libvirt-cim. But I am  
> not sure how to use them.   Could you please share if you have any  
> detailed doc? One line answer is not really helping me out.

I don't know your level of CIM expertise. Libvirt-cim is a set of CIM  
providers, as with any providers, you can look at the schema  
definitions to figure out the interface and how to use them. We don't  
have any more documentation. I pointed you to cimtest to give you an  
idea of flow of libvirt-cim. It is actually not needed. We use it as  
automated test.

You can download the source from  
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-cim.git. All schemas are defined  
under 'schema' directory.

-Sharad

>
> Best Regards
> Raghu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com [mailto:snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: 04 June 2012 19:46
> To: Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)
> Cc: libvirt-cim at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Libvirt-cim] regarding creating VM using libvirt-cim
>
>
> 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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