[libvirt-users] Libvirt API for getting disk capacity from VM XML
Martin Kletzander
mkletzan at redhat.com
Fri Jun 14 14:37:15 UTC 2019
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:17:16PM +0530, Varsha Verma wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>I am doing an outreachy internship at Openstack Ironic. In the sushy-tools
>project, we are using libvirt VMs to simulate bare metal machines for
>testing purposes.
>
>In the XML description of a domain, there are a bunch of disk elements
>giving information about the various storage devices attached to the
>domain. Is there some way to get the size/capacity of those disks using the
>libvirt API?
>
Yes, there is, virStorageVolGetXMLDesc:
https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-storage.html#virStorageVolGetXMLDesc
Look for <capacity/>
The tricky part might be to get the storage volume object. I'm not sure how
sushy-tools are using libvirt and what the deployment looks like, so here are
few tips and feel free to ask for more info.
If it is a path on the local filesystem, you might just use
`virStorageVolLookupByKey` and be done with it:
https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-storage.html#virStorageVolLookupByKey
If it is not, you might need to look it up based on the pool it is in.
If you have the pool already, then it is a matter of `virStorageVolLookupBy*`
for example. If you don't have that you might look for the pool with
`virStoragePoolLookupBy*`, for example `virStoragePoolLookupByName`:
https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-storage.html#virStoragePoolLookupByName
And one more general libvirt advice (although maybe not really a good one,
definitely not a silver bullet):
You can always have a look at how `virsh` does things. It might be a bit
confusing at times, but if you have a command name (in our case we'd use the
`vol-dumpxml` command), you can CamelCase it ("VolDumpXML"), prepend "cmd" (as
in "command") and the resulting name (`cmdVolDumpXML`) is the name of the
function that virsh runs for that command. You can see it in
tools/virsh-volume.c:
https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/master/tools/virsh-volume.c#L1211
The main part of how it looks up a volume is `virshCommandOptVol` which is just
a syntax sugar for `virshCommandOptVolBy` in the same file:
https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/master/tools/virsh-volume.c#L68
Which is trying to do the lookup by all various possible things. Same thing can
be found for `pool-*` commands.
HTH, have a nice day,
Martin
>--
>
>*Regards,*
>
>*Varsha Verma*
>
>*Fourth Year Undergraduate*
>
>*Department of Electrical Engineering*
>
>*IIT-BHU, Varanasi*
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