[Libvirt-cim] regarding creating VM using libvirt-cim

[Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)]

Hi Sharad, 

  Thanks for the information. 
  
We need to use CIM-Schemas, defined by DMTF, to create and work on  VMs.  Could you please share the following,
   - What are all soft-wares do I need to install to start working on this. Would be good if you can provide step step procedure for this.
   - What are all the hyper-visors are supported by libvirt-cim? Deos it support ESX hypervisor?
   - Do we have any detailed documentation/ wiki for this in addition to  http://www.libvirt.org/CIM/

Best Regards
Raghu
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From: snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com [snmishra at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:21 PM
To: Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)
Subject: Re: [Libvirt-cim] regarding creating VM using libvirt-cim

Quoting "Raghunatha Reddy P (raghunp)" <raghunp at cisco.com>:

> Hi All,
>   I am very new to libvirt-cim.   We wanted to create a VM using
> libvirt-cim using CIM schemas. Could you please detail the steps
> involved in this task, procedures, softwares to be installed and run,
> docs, wikipages, blogs..etc.

Hi Raghu,

     Welcome to libvirt-cim.
     Best way to learn how to use libvirt-cim is to create a VM using
cimtest. You can download cimtest snapshot from
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=cimtest.git;a=tree. Go to cimtest directory
and run the following command -

CIM_NS=root/virt CIM_USER=<<YOUR USERNAME>> CIM_PASS=<<YOUR PASSWORD>>
./runtests libvirt-cim -i localhost -c -d -v KVM -g ComputerSystem -t
06_paused_active_suspend.py

Replace <<YOUR USERNAME>> and <<YOUR PASSWORD>> with your username and
password.

You may have some missing packages that cimtest needs. Once you have
them installed, you can follow the test to learn how VMs are created.
There are lot more tests under cimtest which do more advanced things
like adding disk/memeory/CPU to existing VM.

Feel free to post on the mailing list if you have any more questions.

-Sharad Mishra
IBM

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Raghu
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