[libvirt-users] [API reference] Are there XML-handling API to retrieve info directly from xml configure file

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 03:24:25PM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote:
> Hi, everyone
> 
>     I'm writing a application using libvirt and need to query guest
> os's virtual network interface usage, like bytes read or written
> through a given interface. I know int
> virDomainInterfaceStats(virDomainPtr dom, const char * path,
> 		virDomainInterfaceStatsPtr stats,  size_t size) is designed for my
> purpose but I 'm not sure how I determine the second parameter path.
> I'm now think of determining the virtual interface by parsing the
> domain's xml configure file.
> But I don't find that libvirt  supply such functions, that means, I
> have to resort to other library lik libxml?

I would also really like to see such an API/APIs in the basic
libvirt API.

Rich.

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