I am trying to create a python script to handle basic VM operations like: create a VM, delete a VM, start, stop, etc.
Currently I'm rather "stuck" on create
From the command line you would do something like:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img
virt-install --virt-type kvm --name testVM --ram 1024
--cdrom=ubuntu.iso --disk /path/to/virtual/drive,size=10,format=qcow2
--network network=default --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole
--os-type=linux
And that will create a new VM called testVM and install it on the previously defined vdisk.img
But I want to do this all in python; I know how to handle the second part:
start with an XML template for the VM
open a libvirt connection and use the connection handler to create the VM
But I'm wondering about the first part, where you have to create the virtual disk.
Are there any libvirt API calls you can use?
OR, you have to put in a system call to qemu-img create to create the virtual disk?
解决方案
I finally found and answer to my problems- so I'm posting the solution here in case anyone ever hits the same problem.
The libvirt connection object can work with storage pools.
From the libvirt.org: "A storage pool is a quantity of storage set aside by an administrator, often a dedicated storage administrator, for use by virtual machines. Storage pools are divided into storage volumes either by the storage administrator or the system administrator, and the volumes are assigned to VMs as block devices."
Basically a volume is what quemu-img create creates. Once you create a storage pool in the same directory where all the .img (created using qemu-img) files are; the files created with qemu-img are seen as volumes.
The following code will list all existing volumes, including the ones created with qemu-img
conn = libvirt.open()
pools = conn.listAllStoragePools(0)
for pool in pools:
#check if pool is active
if pool.isActive() == 0:
#activate pool
pool.create()
stgvols = pool.listVolumes()
print('Storage pool: '+pool.name())
for stgvol in stgvols :
print(' Storage vol: '+stgvol)
Creating a storage pool:
def createStoragePool(conn):
xmlDesc = """
guest_images_storage_pool
8c79f996-cb2a-d24d-9822-ac7547ab2d01
4306780815
237457858
4069322956
/path/to/guest_images
0755
-1
-1
"""
pool = conn.storagePoolDefineXML(xmlDesc, 0)
#set storage pool autostart
pool.setAutostart(1)
return pool
Creating a volume:
def createStoragePoolVolume(pool, name):
stpVolXml = """
"""+name+""".img
0
10
/path/to/guest_images/"""+name+""".img
107
107
0744
virt_image_t
"""
stpVol = pool.createXML(stpVolXml, 0)
return stpVol