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(virDomainPtr domain, unsigned long memory);</code></p><p>become</p><p><code>virConn::numOfDomains(self)</code></p><p><code>virDomain::setMaxMemory(self, memory)</code></p><p>This process is fully automated, you can get a summary of the conversion
in the file libvirtclass.txt present in the python dir or in the docs.There
is a couple of function who don't map directly to their C counterparts due to
specificities in their argument conversions:</p><ul><li><code><ahref="html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virConnectListDomains">virConnectListDomains</a></code>
is replaced by <code>virDomain::listDomainsID(self)</code> which returns
a list of the integer ID for the currently running domains</li>
print dom0.<spanstyle="color: #FF0080; background-color: #FFFFFF">info</span>()</pre><p>There is not much to comment about it, it really is a straight mapping
from the C API, the only points to notice are:</p><ul><li>the import of the module called <code><spanstyle="color: #0071FF; background-color: #FFFFFF">libvirt</span></code></li>
<li>getting a connection to the hypervisor, in that case using the
openReadOnly function allows the code to execute as a normal user.</li>
<li>getting an object representing the Domain 0 using <spanstyle="color: #007F00; background-color: #FFFFFF">lookupByName</span></li>
<li>extracting and printing some informations about the domain using
various <spanstyle="color: #E50073; background-color: #FFFFFF">methods</span>
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