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    On 06/06/2012 04:02 PM, Anil Vettathu wrote:
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cite="mid:CAEixW=YEzY3FuPWxe3PiN=v8PjdL_X_1R9Bk=J3ZutivE0oUrA@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Hi<br>
      <br>
      I am writing a small python script to get the name of all the VMs
      that matches a string.<br>
      <br>
      ==========<br>
      import sys<br>
      import getopt<br>
      import optparse<br>
      import os<br>
      import time<br>
      from ovirtsdk.api import API<br>
      from ovirtsdk.xml import params<br>
      <br>
      URL='<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://192.168.1.1:8443/api">https://192.168.1.1:8443/api</a>'
      #RHEVM API ACCESS URL<br>
      USERNAME='admin@internal'<br>
      PASSWORD='ovirt'<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      api=API(url=URL, username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)<br>
      <br>
      vmnames = api.vms.list(query = 'name=a')<br>
      print vmnames<br>
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    you print the vm object you get, while you need to print the "name"
    field:<br>
    print vmnames.name<br>
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cite="mid:CAEixW=YEzY3FuPWxe3PiN=v8PjdL_X_1R9Bk=J3ZutivE0oUrA@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">==========<br>
      <br>
      Print output is,<br>
      <br>
      &lt;ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.VM object at 0x1d4e790&gt;<br
        clear="all">
      <br>
      I was expecting a list of VMs which contains "a" in their names.<br>
      <br>
      Am I doing it correct? Can someone guide me with a small example?<br>
      My reference is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK#Querying_collection_with_oVirt_search_engine_query_.26_custom_constraint">http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/SDK#Querying_collection_with_oVirt_search_engine_query_.26_custom_constraint</a><br>
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      Thanks,<br>
      Anil<br>
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Thanks,

Rami Vaknin, QE @ Red Hat, TLV, IL.
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