[ovirt-users] ovirt python sdk and starting stateless vm

[Ondra Machacek]

On 09/26/2016 12:48 PM, Jiří Sléžka wrote:
> Dne 26.9.2016 v 12:10 Ondra Machacek napsal(a):
>> On 09/26/2016 11:41 AM, Jiří Sléžka wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am testing some from scratch deployment so I created a stateless vm
>>> and wrote small python script to shutdown and start the vm again (to
>>> revert vm state to starting point).
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/b5yTFEkN
>>>
>>> problem is that after stopping the vm there is a running operation of
>>> snapshot removal and when script try to start the vm it fails with
>>>
>>> Failed to Start VM:
>>>
>>> status: 409
>>> reason: Conflict
>>> detail: Cannot run VM. Related operation is currently in progress.
>>> Please try again later.
>>>
>>> Is there a cleaner way than checking status and looping or waiting some
>>> time to end of this operation? (desclaimer: I am new to python so please
>>> don't hit me :-)
>>
>> Unfortunatelly, no. You always have to poll the API to check the status
>> of the operation.
>
> ok, I will
>
>> Just for info, we have new Python SDK version 4[1]. Python SDK version
>> 3 will be removed someday in future. So you would have to migrate your
>> scripts, so maybe better to write it in version 4 now, then rewrite it
>> later.
>
> thanks for link. Unfortunatelly it looks like there is only 3.6.3.0
> version of ovirt-engine-sdk-python in Fedora24 repo at this time (and
> ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.6.9.1-1.fc23.noarch.rpm in /ovirt-4.0 repo for
> fc23)

It has different name - python-ovirt-engine-sdk4.

http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0/rpm/fc23/x86_64/python-ovirt-engine-sdk4-4.0.1-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm

>
>> And also, if you don't know Python, but you know Ansible, you can use
>> Ansible VMs module[2].
>
> thanks once more. I am using ansible and I will try ovirt module for
> sure (but python is on my todo list as well ;-)
>
> Cheers, Jiri
>
>>
>> [1] - https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/tree/master/sdk
>> [2] - http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ovirt_vms_module.html
>
>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jiri
>>>
>>>
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