[ovirt-users] Ovirt api function

[Shanil S]

Hi Juan,

Thanks for your replies..

Regarding the rebuild VM, Is that any method to reinstall the os on the VM
without remove it or create a new one?


-- 
Regards
Shanil


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Juan Hernandez <jhernand at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/20/2014 12:42 PM, Shanil S wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I would like to create the following functions using the ovirt api
> >
> > 1. Rebuild VM
>
> What do you exactly mean by "rebuild vm"?
>
> > 2. Restore the screenthots of one vm to another vm
>
> What you can do is create a new VM from an existing snapshot, something
> like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh -ex
>
> url="https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api"
> user="admin at internal"
> password="******"
>
> curl \
> --verbose \
> --insecure \
> --request POST \
> --header "Accept: application/xml" \
> --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
> --user "${user}:${password}" \
> --data "
> <vm>
>   <name>myclone</name>
>   <cluster id='00000001-0001-0001-0001-000000000171'/>
>   <snapshots>
>     <snapshot id='f09a98fd-2c7e-40eb-a9ae-6b7f86412bb0'/>
>   </snapshots>
> </vm>
> " \
> "${url}/vms"
>
> You need to modify that script with your URL, user name, password,
> cluster and snapshot id.
>
> > 3. Display cpu,network etc usages
> >
>
> The statistics are available in the "statistics" sub-resource. For
> example, if you want to get the statistics of a host you can do the
> following:
>
> #!/bin/sh -ex
>
> url="https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api"
> user="admin at internal"
> password="******"
>
> curl \
> --verbose \
> --insecure \
> --request GET \
> --header "Accept: application/xml" \
> --user "${user}:${password}" \
> "${url}/hosts/40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3/statistics"
>
> There you will find different statistics, like "memory.total",
> "memory.used", etc. Take a look. Once you know what statistic you want
> you can get its details like this:
>
> curl \
> --verbose \
> --insecure \
> --request GET \
> --header "Accept: application/xml" \
> --user "${user}:${password}" \
>
> "${url}/hosts/40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3/statistics/7816602b-c05c-3db7-a4da-3769f7ad8896"
>
> This can be cumbersome to do with a shell script, so you may want to use
> the Python or Java SDKs, or just use directly the ovirt-shell:
>
> $ ovirt-shell --insecure
> URL: https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api
> Username: admin at internal
> Password: ******
> [oVirt shell (connected)]# show statistic memory.total --host-identifier
> myhost
> id                : 7816602b-c05c-3db7-a4da-3769f7ad8896
> name              : memory.total
> description       : Total memory
> host-id           : 40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3
> type              : GAUGE
> unit              : BYTES
> values-type       : INTEGER
> values-value-datum: 2099249152
>
> > I couldn't find out any direct api method to do the above, Is it
> > possible to do these operations using api ? If anyone knows it please
> > help me to sort out it.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Shanil
>
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