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Python - libvirt

Is it possible to create a VM from KVM hypervisor using libvirt-python API? I have an iso that I downloaded from a cloud directly. I could not find any example on the internet.

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Solution

  • sure libvirt-python is designed to do that. You just need to open a connection and call defineXML() with a well formated XML.

    import libvirt
conn = libvirt.open('qemu+ssh://root@yourhost/system')
conn.defineXML(imagine_a_well_formated_domain_xml_here)

    Now the domain is defined, you can start it:

    dom = conn.lookupByName(the_domain_name)
dom.create() # start the domain