[Libvirt-cim] How LIBVIRT-CIM actually works

Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia lagarcia at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 30 17:39:22 UTC 2014


Hi Amine,

On 01/30/2014 06:40 AM, Bouabid Mohamed Amine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a CIM developer and i am interested in LIBVIRT-CIM as a
> foundation for a futur work, so i have some questions about its design:
>
> How the VMs' life cycle methods are mapped with libvirt API? i mean
> the methods of the class CIM_VirtualSystemManagementService
> (DefineSystem, DestroySystem, ModifyResourceSettings,
> ModifySystemSettings, RemoveResourceSettings)
>
> What is the relation between the command wirsh and its XML description
> with  the classes CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData,
> CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData ?
I am not a libvirt-cim expert so I don't know the answer for your above
questions...
>
> Is the libvirt-cim provider invoking the virsh command ?
No, libvirt-cim is not invoking virsh in the backend. It is directly
invoking libvirt library API. virsh executable invokes the livbvirt
library API as well.

Best regards,

Leonardo Garcia
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Amine Bouabid
>
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