I am trying curl with the restapi, following the docs, but I get a syntax error.

# curl --cacert '/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ctg.crt' --request POST --header 'Version: 4' --header 'Content-Type: application/xml' --header 'Accept: application/xml' --user 'admin@internal:psw' "https://baronne.neworleans.com/ovirt-engine/api/vms/636e3bb8-b025-482c-ba5a-e6c075e5aee8/start"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<fault>
<detail>For correct usage, see: https://baronne.neworleans.com/ovirt-engine/apidoc#services/vm/methods/start</detail>
<reason>Request syntactically incorrect.</reason>
</fault>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:15 AM Paul Dyer <pmdyermms@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to use the command line to stop and start vms in ovirt 4.4. Previously, I used virsh on the standalone engine machine, but that has been removed in this release.

On the compute host, I am able to use virsh to list vms, and shutdown vms from that list. The start command gives me this error:

virsh # start r7-dante
error: failed to get domain 'r7-dante'

I have also tried to use curl with the restapi from the standalone engine. I have not been able to find examples of how to stop and start vms. Here is an example of my list of vms...

curl --cacert '/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ctg.crt' --request GET --header 'Version: 4' --header 'Accept: application/xml' --user 'admin@internal:psw' https://bacchus.neworleans.com/ovirt-engine/api/vms

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you. Regards

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Paul Dyer,
Mercury Consulting Group, RHCE
504-338-8750