I would recommend reading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization docs. They are the best overview of libvirtd and friends.
Then use the Web site to read the fine-grained documentation for things like the network, domain and storage XML formats so that you can easily configure those things directly from virsh. On Dec 3, 2012 9:00 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> > wrote: > > Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: > >> So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with > >> VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a > >> wrapper around other virt models. > >> > >> Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool > >> formats it supports? > >> > >> -- > >> :wq > >> > > > > Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? > > In the second case you might look at [1] > > Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in > enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining > the compile-time factors, I was hoping for a way to simply ask > libvirtd via virsh. Going that route gives me an approach that works > weather I'm on Gentoo, Linux, Debian or whatever. > > > > > You also might take a look at virt-manager (in portage) which is a gui > > for libvirt that manages libvirt on your local machine an remote > > machines (via ssh tunnel for example). > > I've played with virt-manager before. I could use it again, but at > least part of this exercise is to learn libvirt and kvm using a > spartan toolchain. So I'm trying to do everything I can via CLI. (I'm > handy enough with Python that I could use the python API bindings, but > I presumed virsh would be easier, if not simpler.) > > > I am really happy with virt-manager here, it work very well on you don't > > need to remember all the virsh commands (which becomes pretty handy when > > managing storage, virtual networks and creating vms) > > Yeah, I'm hoping to learn all those commands. I want to > proof-of-concept an approach for a high-availability NFS server using > VMs.[2] :) > > > > > > [1] http://libvirt.org/storage.html > > > > [2] http://mmol-6453.livejournal.com/279980.html > > -- > :wq > >
