[Users] new wiki for ovirt-engine-cli

Michael Pasternak mpastern at redhat.com
Sun Mar 4 15:14:34 UTC 2012


On 03/04/2012 04:51 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:38:41AM +0200, Michael Pasternak wrote:
>>
>> On 03/01/2012 07:44 AM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
>>> On 02/29/2012 08:38 PM, Michael Pasternak wrote:
>>>> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/CLI
>>>>
>>> I would like to see something similar for VDSM cli (vdsClient) :)
>>>
>>
>> if VDSM api will expose RSDL (RESTful service description language), we could
>> generate SDK [1] for it and then very same cli can be used against this sdk
>>
>> [1] our ovirt-engine-sdk [2] is auto-generated from RSDL exposed in ovirt-engine-api
>> [2] http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK
> 
> REST API for Vdsm is in the works, http://gerrit.ovirt.org/2021
> but I am not sure that mixing the layers and having one cli to Engine and Vdsm
> makes sense. 

it's not mixing of two CLIs, if vdsm will expose RSDL, will be generated vdsm sdk,
i.e cli will be completely different as it will work against vdsm sdk,

all I'm saying that if vdsm will expose RSDL, it will get sdk/cli for free ...

> In fact, I would guess that Engine would not be surprised if you
> spring a VM below its feet, or migrate an existing VM.
> That's why vdsClient is considered and test and debug tool.

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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D



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