libvirt & python-lvm

For work, I’m coding a suite of utilities that understand virtualization and storage technologies to automate a lot of dull operations that administrators have to deal with on a day to day basis.

I plan on using libvirt, a virtualization API to query the hypervisor for virtual machines that are running on the systems. Ideally I’d like to get back some information about storage and then create backups. Libvirt has support for different storage objects, so I’m hoping that their binding to LVM has support for snapshots.