[Ovirt-devel] Skipping the Browser :)

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:12 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Is everything in ovirt that can be accessed as a GUI (and performed by 
> the GUI) accessible as a web service (by this, I mean something simple 
> like XMLRPC or JSON-over-REST?).    Can there also be an ovirt command 
> line for simple scripting integration?

As Ian said, we're in the process of defining an API for that; right now
the htinking is that it will be JSON-over-REST or similar.

What needs to be exposed is at a minimum
      * VM lifecycle management (start/stop/create/destroy/migrate)
      * queries for lots of info around the various pools
      * defining/organizing resources into pools
      * some higher level ops like 'clear all VM's from this host'

Essentially, everything that you can do through the UI should be
scriptable.

If you have any specific uses/operations that you want to see supported,
let me know.

David