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virt

Simple to use ruby interface to libvirt.

Libvirt is located at libvirt.org/ruby

Contributing

  • Fork the project
  • Start a feature/bugfix branch
  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don‘t break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

RDOC

for full API please visit rdoc.info/github/ohadlevy/virt

Examples

Connectivity Options

  uri = "qemu:///system"              # libvirt running locally
  uri = "qemu:/fqdn//system"          # used for QEMU+TLS connection
  uri = "qemu+ssh:/user@fqdn//system" # used for SSH connection
  uri = "qemu+tcp:/fqdn//system"      # used for non secured tcp connection

Establish the connection

  conn = Virt.connect(uri)

get the hypervisor

  host = conn.host

get the list of running guests

  host.running_guests

get the list of stopped guests

  host.defined_guests

or a simple hash of both

  host.guests

create a new guest

  guest=Virt::Guest.new({:name => "test123"})
  guest.vcpu = 2
  guest.volume.size = 10 # in GB

  guest.save
  guest.start

  puts guest.mac

  guest.shutdown     # initiate a shutdown
  guest.poweroff     # forces a shutdown

Many more options exists, make sure checkout the api/tests

list of host bridges

  host.interfaces # physical interfaces
  host.networks   # virtual / NAT interfaces

Storage

  host.storage_pools

  host.volumes

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Ohad Levy

This program and entire repository is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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