[et-mgmt-tools] Using libvirt-remote with python-virtinst?

[Cole Robinson]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:48:36PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Today I tried using a remote connection string within koan.  The idea 
>> here is to be able to use koan against boxes that have libvirtd 
>> installed but do not have koan installed.
>>
>> guest = 
>> virtinst.FullVirtGuest(hypervisorURI="qemu+ssh://root@drwily.rdu.redhat.com/system", 
>> ...)
>>
>> This works fine up until the point where it wants to create the disk.
>>
>> I heard on #ovirt that there may be some work being done to make the API 
>> of python-virtinst be smart enough to be able to create remote disks? 
> 
> It needs virtinst to be fully ported to use the storage APIs, which is
> something Cole is working on right now. There's probably a few other
> places where we still hit local machine state, but that can be cleaned
> up by use of the capabilities XML and other libvirt APIs (eg BlockPeek
> to check for MBR signature).
> 
> Daniel

Just FYI, that is what I've been particularly working on this week. I'll
probably have a working RFC to post by Wednesday so we can discuss
any actual cli and api extensions.

- Cole