[libvirt-users] DBus API for libvirt

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/13/2016 11:30 AM, sbaugh at catern.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> For a variety of reasons I am interested in a D-Bus interface for
> libvirt.
> 
> Primarily for use with http://cockpit-project.org/ for which it
> would be very easy to write a web interface for libvirt, given a D-Bus
> interface for libvirt, but writing using the raw libvirt RPC protocol
> would require writing a new Javascript library for parsing/encoding that
> protocol. But there are other nice features of a D-Bus interface for
> libvirt, too.
> 

I don't know of any bindings that try to implement the libvirt RPC protocol to
talk directly to libvirtd, instead they wrap the C API and let the libvirt C
library handle all that.

> Does a D-Bus interface for libvirt exist?
> 

No unfortunately, and I don't recall hearing of anyone working on one.

- Cole