[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt API and CLI

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:45 AM Eugène Ngontang <sympavali(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to find out there a sort of API or ovirt CLI/SDK in order to be able to interact with my ovirt VMS and associated resources. > > In my architecture, I have an Ovirt virtualization host, with a self-hosted engine VM to manage VMs. > > From the host I have the virsh command to list VMs status, but this doesn't really let me get into VMs management actions like : create, delete, get, reboot, get VMs wide informations (IPs, name, disks.....) > So each time I have to login to the hosted engine web admin page to explore VM, but I'd really like to play with my Ovirt resources from my command line or programatically. > > The ovirt API documentation I've found is really poor, I don't know if someone here has already got the same need and had a good solution. Did you try one of the SDKs? Also the ansible modules are useful for many cases. Good luck and best regards, -- Didi