Ruby bindings for libvirt (original) (raw)

What is ruby-libvirt?

ruby-libvirt provides Ruby bindings for libvirt. With them you can use libvirt directly from your Ruby programs:

require 'libvirt'

conn = Libvirt::open("qemu:///system") puts conn.capabilities

conn.create_domain_xml(File.read("domain.xml"))

dom = conn.lookup_domain_by_name("mydomain") dom.suspend dom.resume puts dom.xml_desc

To get a better idea of what's possible to achieve using ruby-libvirt, check out theexamples that are part of the git repository and the fullAPI reference.