This module aims to manage KVM hypervisors. For this it use the
unix module which allow to manage
Unix-like systems, both locally and remotely, in the same by overloading class
instances. This module is just a wrapper to the virsh command. It parse
outputs of the virsh command (both XML and text). Commands are grouped in
childs objects accessible via properties.
This module is compatible with python2.7 and python 3.*. The module is
on PyPi so you can use the pip command for installing it.
For example, to use kvm in a virtualenv:
$ virtualenv env/ --prompt "(myprog)" $ . ./env/bin/activate (myprog) $ pip install kvm
Otherwise sources are on github: https://github.com/fmenabe/python-kvm
You need to import the necessary classes from unix module. An hypervisor is
represented by the Hypervisor object and must wrap an object of type
unix.Local or unix.Remote. It theorically support any Unix system, but
disks manipulations need nbd module to be loaded so it is better to use an
unix.linux.Linux host.
>>> from unix import Local, Remote, UnixError >>> from unix.linux import Linux >>> import kvm >>> import json >>> localhost = kvm.Hypervisor(Linux(Local())) >>> localhost.hypervisor.nodeinfo() {'nb_cpu': 1, 'nb_threads_per_core': 2, 'memory': 16331936, 'numa_cells': 1, 'cpu_model': 'x86_64', 'nb_cores_per_cpu': 4, 'nb_cores': 8, 'cpu_freq': 1340} >>> localhost.list_domains(all=True) {'guest1': {'id': -1, 'state': 'shut off'}} {'guest2': {'id': 1, 'state': 'running'}} >>> localhost.domain.start('guest1') # Wait a few seconds for the domain to start. >>> localhost.domain.state('guest1') 'running' >>> localhost.domain.id('guest1') 2 >>> print(json.dumps(localhost.domain.conf('guest1'), indent=2)) # json is use for pretty printing the dictionnary containing the # configuration. { "@type": "kvm", "name": "guest1", "uuid": "ed68d942-5d4b-7bba-4d74-7d44d73779d3", "memory": { "@unit": "KiB", "#text": "2097152" }, ... } >>> localhost.list_networks() {'default': {'autostart': True, 'persistent': True, 'state': 'active'}} >>> host = Remote() >>> host.connect('hypervisor1') >>> host = kvm.Hypervisor(Linux(host)) >>> host.hypervisor.nodeinfo() {'cores_per_socket': 12, 'cpu_frequency': '2200 MHz', 'cpu_model': 'x86_64', 'cpu_sockets': 2, 'cpus': 24, 'memory_size': '98974432 kB', 'numa_cells': 1, 'threads_per_core': 1} >>> host.list_domains(all=True) {'guest1': {'id': 1, 'state': 'running'}} {'guest2': {'id': 2, 'state': 'running'}} >>> host.domain.shutdown('guest2') # Wait for the domain to stop. >>> host.domain.state('guest1') 'shut off' # Using the context manager for the connecion. >>> from unix.linux as linux, kvm >>> with linux.connect('hypervisor1') as host: ... host = kvm.Hypervisor(host) ... host.hypervisor.node_info()