[libvirt-users] Listing shut off domains

[None]

Well it seems like Workstation itself cannot provide the listing of shut off
VMs, even through their own VIX api. I'm not sure other VMWare products can
provide it either, even though Server and ESX have the notion of Inventory.

As a last resort, I tried playing with libvirt, calling 'virsh define' in
the hope that libvirt could register the VM in its own store and later on be
able to list it, to no avail.

I think I'm done with Workstation. I'm a little disappointed with libvirt,
which I thought it provided a uniform interface to various hypervisors. I
should've read goals.html more thoroughly, as it is stated that:

libvirt should provide all APIs needed to do the management [...] within the
limits of the support of the hypervisor for those operations.

It would be neat to create a table with all the libvirt commands and the
supported hypervisors, showing which command is available to which
hypervisor. This would help people wanting to change hypervisors while
keeping their libvirt-based system by showing what will continue to work and
what will need to be worked around in other ways, such as listing shut off
VMs.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:50 AM, None <balexis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I am in the process of migrating a system that was using KVM to VMWare
> Workstation.
>
> The original code needs to list all the domains available on the local
> machine, no matter what their state is. The problem is that the shut off
> domains are not shown by the virsh commands on the VMWare Workstation
> system.
>
> On the KVM system, with one shut off domain, I get this output:
> maxpower at sw ~$ virsh list --all
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   - 00042-my-domain shut off
>
> On the VMWare Workstation system, with one shut off domain, I get this
> output:
> maxpower at sw2 ~ $ virsh -c vmwarews:///session list --all
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>
> As soon as I power on the machine in VMWare, it appears in the output as
> running:
> maxpower at sw2 ~ $ virsh -c vmwarews:///session list --all
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
> 14063 my-domain-1      running
>
>
> Is this a limitation of the Workstation driver? Is there a workaround of
> some sort that I haven't thought of? How can I get the entire domain list
> when using Workstation?
>
> Thanks for your input,
> Alexis
>
>
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