Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt Python SDK on Ubuntu

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas(a)ecarnot.net&gt; wrote: > Le 23/01/2017 à 13:38, Ondra Machacek a écrit : >> >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas(a)ecarnot.net&gt; >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to follow >>> >>> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/infra/python-sdk/ >>> and I'm successfully discovering Python + oVirt SDK on CentOS. >>> >>> I'd like to do the same on Ubuntu, but the instructions seem incomplete : >>> >>> " >>> easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python >>> " >>> >>> is working, but "import ovirtsdk" doen't give anything. >> >> >> Note that the wiki page is about SDK version 3, which will be deprecated >> in 4.2. >> When you run 'easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python' it will install >> Python SDK version >> 4, which is different from SDK version 3. > > > You're right, and I haven't noticed : import ovirtsdk4 is working. > >> >> You may find few examples of Python SDK version 4 here: >> >> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/tree/master/sdk/examples > > > Yes, this list of examples is a treasure, and I'm grateful to the > maintainers. > > Alas, though we already have one DC in V4, most of our production DCs are > still in V3 for one year, and I have to maintain them. > So far, I have no clue how to add ovirtsdk v3 to my Ubuntu. You just need to specify which version you would like to install, in your case: easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python==3.6.9.2 > > Another point : is the compatibility between ovirtsdk and oVirt completely > obvious (ie 3 -> 3 and 4 -> 4), or is there any kind of backward > compatibility? Unfortunatelly no, there is no backward compatibility between SDK v3 and v4.