virt¶ ↑

Simple to use ruby interface to libvirt.

Libvirt is located at libvirt.org/ruby

• 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.

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

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

conn = Virt.connect(uri)

host = conn.host

host.running_guests

host.defined_guests

host.guests

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

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

host.storage_pools

host.volumes

Copyright © 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.

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