adding new scripts to start and stop clients as well as wrapper scripts to execute them

personal/system/vm_stop.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import os, sys, ast, platform
+import subprocess
+from time import sleep
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
+def get_time():
+    ts1 = str(datetime.now()).split('.')[0]
+    return ts1
+
+
+def client_shutdown(client_type, clientid):
+    lxc_filepath = "/usr/bin/lxc-stop"
+    qemu_filepath = "/usr/sbin/qm"
+    try:
+        print(f'Stopping {clientid}')
+        if client_type == 'vm':
+            process_id = os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, qemu_filepath, ['shutdown', clientid])
+        elif client_type == 'lxc':
+            process_id = os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, lxc_filepath, [client_type, clientid])
+        print(process_id)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f'Unable to stop container {clientid}: {e}')
+
+def main():
+    client_type = None
+    client_list = None
+    try:
+        client_type = sys.argv[1]
+        client_list = ast.literal_eval(sys.argv[2])
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f'Unable to process cli arguments. {e}')
+    else:
+        print(f'{client_type} {client_list}')
+    timestamp = get_time()
+    print(f'Start time: {timestamp}')
+    for clientid in client_list:
+        client_shutdown(client_type, clientid)
+    else:
+        print(f'Successfully stopped client list.')
+
+    timestamp = get_time()
+    print(f'End time: {timestamp}')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+#     sys.exit(0)
+#     sys.exit(1)