[libvirt-users] Question regarding management of VMs using libvirtd.

[Eric Blake]

On 04/20/2015 08:55 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 20.04.2015 15:52, somenathpal . wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a question regarding the uses of libvirtd.  We have the following
>> situation to manage.
>>
>> We have several hosts with libvirtd running.  We have one management
>> application to manage different VMs launched in those different hosts.
>>
>> We want to configure the system such a way so that one libvirtd can collect
>> information about the VMs launched by other libvirtd running in different
>> hosts. Is it possible? Could you please point me to some resource around
>> this?
>>
>> In this we will be able to get information about VMs from single source and
>> need not to query different host for VMs info.
> 
> No, libvirtd's scope is a single host. It can't manage VMs on a distant
> hosts, so I'm afraid you'll have to query daemons on all the hosts to
> get desired info.

That said, libvirtd IS designed to be remote controlled, so it is
certainly feasible to write higher-layer applications that manage
connections to multiple libvirtd and collect results into a single app
for use by the end user.  In fact, that's what VDSM does.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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