python创建虚拟机,Python libvirt API-创建虚拟机

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