[CentOS-virt] unable to get domain status from libvirt & KVM

Fri Mar 12 16:16:02 UTC 2010
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Tom Georgoulias
<tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:

> [testu at kvm ~]$ virsh -c qemu:///system list --all
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   8 changed              running
>  13 changed2             running
>  14 changed3             running
>
> [testu at kvm ~]$ python
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep  3 2009, 15:37:37)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import libvirt
>  >>> conn = libvirt.openReadOnly(None)
> 07:45:56.893: error : No vport operation path found for host0
> 07:45:56.912: error : No vport operation path found for host4
> 07:45:56.919: error : No vport operation path found for host3
> 07:45:56.967: error : No vport operation path found for host1
> 07:45:56.968: error : No vport operation path found for host2
>  >>> domains = conn.listDomainsID()
>  >>> print domains
> []

In the case of virsh, you have a chance to add the -c qemu:///system
option (which is required when running the command as non-root).  So,
the question is if this option can be somehow added in python.

Akemi