[virt-tools-list] [RFC] virt-disk : a command line tool for modify domain XML's disk of inactive domains.

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:08:46 -0500
Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/21/2011 03:23 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > Hi, now, with qemu, virsh attach-disk doesn't work with inactive disks and
> > we need to edit XML with virsh edit.
> > IIUC, libvirt and virsh is designed as it is.
> > 
> > But I want to modify domain XML via commandline tools
> >  - for middleware, which modify domains by scripting.
> >  - for concsoles, where curses can't work correctly.
> >  - for me, I can't remember XML definition detaisl ;)
> >  
> > So, I write one.
> > 
> > Following script is a script for modify domain XML and allows
> >   - add disks
> >   - delete disks
> >   - show list of disks
> > 
> > I think most of elements defined in http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks
> > is supported. But I'm an only qemu user and didn't test with Xen and other VMs.
> > 
> > What I wanted to hear opinions as 'RFC' is
> >  - Can this be shipped with libvirt as one of a tool ? (with more documents)
> >    (If so, we'll write other scripts for cpu,network,memory,etc...)
> > 
> >  - If not, what is the best way other than making this as my house script ?
> >    I'm grad if this is shipped with libvirt is because catching new definition
> >    of XML is easy.
> > 
> >  - Doesn't this one work with your environment ?
> > 
> >  
> 
> Thanks for taking a stab at this, I've been meaning to start a similar tool
> for some time. However, you should be able to leverage virtinst to accomplish
> nearly all the XML parsing, and reuse existing virt-install command line
> options and documentation. Additionally the tool could build or edit any
> arbitrary domain XML and wouldn't be specific to disks.
> 

Thank you, that's the information I wanted to hear ...where this kind of command
should be packaged into. I'll look virt-inst package. And, as I wrote, this is 
just an example, we'll support all cpu,memory,interface,usb etc....

Do you think should all be supported by 'a' command ? or by a set of commands ?

[at modify cpu]
% virt-modify --cpu .....
or
% virt-cpu-modify   .....


> Take a look at tests/xmlparse.py in the virtinst repo to see how the parsing
> works and what it's capable of.
> 

Thanks. We'll look into.

Regards,
-Kame