Foundations of Libvirt Development: How to Set Up and Maintain a Virtual Machine Environment with Python

© W. David Ashley 2019

W. David AshleyFoundations of Libvirt Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4862-1_13

13. Storing Information About Virtual Machines

W. David Ashley¹ 

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There are two categories of information that need to be obtained and stored to be able to manipulate and use guest domains.

• The information needed by libvirt to access and manipulate a guest domain

• The information necessary to access the guest domain via SSH and run the programs necessary to accomplish the required tasks

This chapter discusses the requirements necessary for the information to be stored as well as some options for storing that information.

Deciding What Information Should Be Stored

Here is a list of some basic information that should be ...