Re: [Users] Fwd: API Query on --> api.vms.list

Hi Anil, > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Users] API Query on --> api.vms.list > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:32:51 +0530 > From: Anil Vettathu <anilv.in(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > > > > Hi > > I am writing a small python script to get the name of all the VMs that > matches a string. > > ========== > import sys > import getopt > import optparse > import os > import time > from ovirtsdk.api import API > from ovirtsdk.xml import params > > URL='https://192.168.1.1:8443/api' #RHEVM API ACCESS URL > USERNAME='admin@internal' > PASSWORD='ovirt' > > > api=API(url=URL, username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD) > > vmnames = api.vms.list(query = 'name=a') in this example you have used equals, i.e ovirt engine was guided to find vm with name 'a', to find vms where name starting with 'a', use "name=a*" query, to find all vms contains "a" in their names, use "name=*a*" query, for more examples please see SearchText section of [1]. [1] http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_S...

> print vmnames > ========== > > Print output is, > > <ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.VM object at 0x1d4e790> > > I was expecting a list of VMs which contains "a" in their names. > > Am I doing it correct? Can someone guide me with a small example? > My reference is > http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK#Querying_collection_with_oVirt_search_engin... > > Thanks, > Anil