Rather than using Libvirt's C bindings, this package makes use of Libvirt's RPC interface, as documented here. Connections to the libvirt server may be local, or remote. RPC packets are encoded using the XDR standard as defined by RFC 4506.

Libvirt's RPC interface is quite extensive, and changes from one version to the next, so this project uses a code generator to build the go bindings. The code generator should be run whenever you want to build go-libvirt for a new version of libvirt. To do this, you'll need to set an environment variable LIBVIRT_SOURCE to the directory containing the untarred libvirt sources, and then run go generate ./... from the go-libvirt directory. The code generator consumes src/remote/remote_protocol.x and produces go bindings for all the remote procedures defined there.

Pull requests are welcome!

Feel free to join us in #go-qemu on freenode if you'd like to discuss the project.

Warning

The libvirt project strongly recommends against talking to the RPC interface directly. They consider it to be a private implementation detail with the possibility of being entirely rearchitected in the future.

While these package are reasonably well-tested and have seen some use inside of DigitalOcean, there may be subtle bugs which could cause the packages to act in unexpected ways. Use at your own risk!

In addition, the API is not considered stable at this time. If you would like to include package libvirt in a project, we highly recommend vendoring it into your project.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net"
	"time"

	"github.com/digitalocean/go-libvirt"
)

func main() {
	//c, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", "127.0.0.1:16509", 2*time.Second)
	//c, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", "192.168.1.12:16509", 2*time.Second)
	c, err := net.DialTimeout("unix", "/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock", 2*time.Second)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to dial libvirt: %v", err)
	}

	l := libvirt.New(c)
	if err := l.Connect(); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to connect: %v", err)
	}

	v, err := l.Version()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to retrieve libvirt version: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Version:", v)

	domains, err := l.Domains()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to retrieve domains: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Println("ID\tName\t\tUUID")
	fmt.Printf("--------------------------------------------------------\n")
	for _, d := range domains {
		fmt.Printf("%d\t%s\t%x\n", d.ID, d.Name, d.UUID)
	}

	if err := l.Disconnect(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal("failed to disconnect: %v", err)
	}
}

Version: 1.3.4
ID	Name		UUID
--------------------------------------------------------
1	Test-1		dc329f87d4de47198cfd2e21c6105b01
2	Test-2		dc229f87d4de47198cfd2e21c6105b01