[Users] How to change number of cpu cores in Ovirt 3.1 with the python sdk.

[Don Dupuis]

Thanks

I did find that information yesterday. Thanks for explaining the
detail. Also thanks for the quick response
on the mailing list.

Don

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Michael Pasternak <mpastern at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Well done Steve!,
>
> Don,
>
> Use method/s __doc__, you'll find there how to build parameters holder,
> vm.add() for instance, looks like this:
>
>         ...
>         [@param vm.os.boot: collection]
>         {
>           [@ivar boot.dev: string]
>         }
>         ...
>         [@param vm.cpu.topology.cores: int]
>         ...
>
> as you can see, vm.os.boot is collection of boot.dev, while vm.cpu.topology
> is a type.
>
> On 09/25/2012 05:32 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Don Dupuis" <dondster at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:03:44 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] How to change number of cpu cores in Ovirt 3.1 with the python sdk.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> THANKS!!!  That did the trick.
>>>
>>> I was originally trying it like this
>>>
>>> vm_cpu = params.CPU(topology=[params.CpuTopology(cores=4,
>>> sockets=1)])
>>>
>>>
>>> Don
>>
>> In the params.OperatingSystem(boot=[params.Boot(dev="hd")]) example the reason you pass a list (denoted by the square brackets) is that the VM can have a number of boot devices which will be tried in order. A VM can only have one CPU topology though which is why the topology argument shouldn't be a list. That is my understanding anyway ;).
>>
>> Steve
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>
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>
> Michael Pasternak
> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D