Dear Qin Xiaohong,<br><br>Thank you very so much indeed. That's EXACTLY what I was looking for. <br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Desta<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Xiaohong.Qin@emc.com" target="_blank">Xiaohong.Qin@emc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This is just an entering point to load all client side nova code, the “nova list” CLI eventually invokes the following code in your stack directory,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">python-novaclient/novaclient/v1_1/shell.py<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Inside this file, you can see the following function,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">def do_list<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That prints out the list of VMs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This is the code on client side; the other piece of code is on the server side through nova api service.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dennis Qin <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> openstack-bounces+xiaohong.qin=<a href="mailto:emc.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">emc.com@lists.launchpad.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:openstack-bounces%2Bxiaohong.qin" target="_blank">openstack-bounces+xiaohong.qin</a>=<a href="mailto:emc.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">emc.com@lists.launchpad.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Desta Haileselassie Hagos<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 26, 2012 7:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>; Rosa, Andrea (HP Cloud Services)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] OpenStack + Nova list, nova show location<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear All,<br><br>I still couldn't find the exact location where this "nova list" and "nova show " commands are executed.<br>
<br>Would you please explain me a bit what this load_entry_point stuff is doing? and Where exactly it is loading these parameters???<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">if __name__ == '__main__':<br>
    sys.exit(<br>        load_entry_point('python-novaclient==2012.1', 'console_scripts', 'nova')()<br> )<br><br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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