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Xenserver 5.5 Api Cheat Sheet

XenServer 5.5 API Cheat Sheet

The code snippets below does not include error handling and asynchronous API calls.

Logging into Xenserver

Connection connection =

new Connection(new

URL(" + xenserverHostname));

Session.loginWithPassword( connection,

xenserverUsername, xenserverPassword,

xenserverApiversion);

default is null

try

{

// xenserver api goes here

}

finally

{

Session.logout(connection);

}

Identify the machine to clone

// namelabelToClone = "CentOS_5.3"

// find a halted real virtual machine that match the specified name label.

Set<VM> refVMs = VM.getByNameLabel(connection, namelabelToClone);

(refVMs.size() == 1) {

VM vm = refVMs.iterator().next();

VM.Record record = vm.getRecord(connection);

(!record.isATemplate &&

!record.isControlDomain &&

record.powerState == Types.VmPowerState.HALTED) {

return

vm;

}

Clone a new machine

// clone machine by name lable

VM newVM = vm.createClone(getConnection(), namelabel);

newVM.setNameDescription(

getConnection(),

"Cloned " + namelabelToClone + " at " +

new

Date().toString());

Xenserver 5.5 Api Cheat Sheet