6.2. Listing networks

⁠6.2. Listing networks

Virtual networks are discovered using the methods networkLookupByName, networkLookupByUUID, and networkLookupByUUIDString and listNetworks. The following example shows how to used these methods.

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Example 6.1. Discovering and finding virtual networks

# Example-1.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import libvirt

conn = None
try:
    conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///system")
except libvirt.libvirtError as e:
    print(repr(e), file=sys.stderr)
    exit(1)

# discover all the virtual networks
networks = conn.listNetworks()
print('Virtual networks:')
for network in networks:
    print('  '+network)
print()

# lookup the default network by name
network = conn.networkLookupByName('default')
print('Virtual network default:')
print('  name: '+network.name())
uuid = network.UUIDString()
print('  UUID: '+uuid)
print('  bridge: '+network.bridgeName())
print()

# lookup the default network by name
network = conn.networkLookupByUUIDString(uuid)
print('Virtual network default:')
print('  name: '+network.name())
print('  UUID: '+network.UUIDString())
print('  bridge: '+network.bridgeName())

conn.close()
exit(0)