[libvirt-users] Status of Host machine.

[Michal Privoznik]

On 11.06.2014 14:30, Sijo Jose wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Using libvirt how can we check the status of a remote/local host machine..
> isAlive() method is giving true even if the internet connection is broken OR
>   libvirt demon in the remote machine is being stopped.
>
> so isAlive() does not seems to be handy,
>
> Is there some other way to get the status of remote host..?

Isn't virConnectOpen*() enough? If it returns NULL then you can tell by 
error message what went wrong.

Michal