[libvirt-users] QemuAgentCommand API documents

[Michal Privoznik]

On 22.08.2013 12:17, Praveen Kumar wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michal Privoznik" <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> To: "Praveen Kumar" <prkumar at redhat.com>
>> Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com
>> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:15:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] QemuAgentCommand API documents
>>
>> The API you're looking for is the one you've found:
>> virDomainQemuAgentCommand. As the second argument it accepts qemu guest
>> agent commands described in [3]. I'd also recommend reading [4].
> 
> Thanks for command reference, I am able to figure out that along with libvirt, 
> libvirt_qemu also need to import because it will contain QmenuAgentCommand() function
> definition, but now I am confuse about the parameters. 
> 
> As per definition : def qemuAgentCommand(domain, cmd, timeout, flags), I passed below parameteres:
> domain : A active virDomain object
> command : 'guest-info'
> timeout : 10
> flags : 0

You need to wrap the command into JSON envelope:

command: '{"execute": "guest-info"}'

just exactly as you need to do for virsh:

virsh qemu-agent-command $dom '{"execute":"guest-info"}'

Michal