[Ovirt-devel] [RFC] Beginnings of a OVirt API

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 21:27 -0400, mark wagner wrote:
> I believe that a lot of admin work tends to be performed via scripts. bash
> and perl are two that I use.  I would think that adding new equipment to pools
> or moving stuff between pools would be done via scripts quicker than via the wui,
> especially when done in bulk.

Absolutely; but it would probably have to be done in a language a little
more advanced than bash, like Python.

> In addition, I can envision admins writing scripts to respond to events / alerts.
> Resources on hostX are running out, migrate vm-Y to hostA

Yeah, but again, I would think that those would be Ruby or Python or
Perl (i.e. !bash) scripts

David