4 Picks a host to "create" (boot) a VM on, and does so.
6 Current load-balancing algorithm: wherever there's more free RAM.
8 TODO: use a lock to avoid creating the same VM twice in a race
11 from invirt.remote import bcast
12 from subprocess import PIPE, Popen, call
17 # Query each of the hosts.
18 # XXX will the output of 'xm info' always be parseable YAML?
19 results = bcast('info')
20 return max((int(o['free_memory']), s) for (s, o) in results)[1]
24 print >> sys.stderr, "usage: sipb-xen-remote-create <machine> [<other args...>]"
26 machine_name = argv[1]
29 p = Popen(['/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-proxy-web', 'listvms'], stdout=PIPE)
30 output = p.communicate()[0]
32 raise RuntimeError("Command '%s' returned non-zero exit status %d"
33 % ('sipb-xen-remote-proxy-web', p.returncode))
34 vms = yaml.load(output, yaml.CSafeLoader)
36 if machine_name in vms:
37 host = vms[machine_name]['host']
38 print >> sys.stderr, ("machine '%s' is already running on host %s"
39 % (machine_name, host))
43 print 'Creating on host %s...' % host
45 return call(['remctl', host, 'remote', 'control',
46 machine_name, 'create'] + args)
48 if __name__ == '__main__':
49 sys.exit(main(sys.argv))