added a first, early prototype of the emulator CLI
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/compute.py b/emuvim/cli/compute.py
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+++ b/emuvim/cli/compute.py
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+"""
+son-emu compute CLI
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import pprint
+import zerorpc
+
+
+pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
+
+
+class ZeroRpcClient(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.c = zerorpc.Client()
+        self.c.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:4242")  # yes, hard coded for now. we'll change this later
+        self.cmds = {}
+
+    def execute_command(self, args):
+        if getattr(self, args["command"]) is not None:
+            # call the local method with the same name as the command arg
+            getattr(self, args["command"])(args)
+        else:
+            print "Command not implemented."
+
+    def start(self, args):
+        r = self.c.compute_action_start(
+            args.get("datacenter"), args.get("name"))
+        pp.pprint(r)
+
+    def stop(self, args):
+        r = self.c.compute_action_stop(
+            args.get("datacenter"), args.get("name"))
+        pp.pprint(r)
+
+    def list(self, args):
+        print "TODO: Not implemented"
+
+    def status(self, args):
+        print "TODO: Not implemented"
+
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='son-emu compute')
+parser.add_argument("command", help="Action to be executed.")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--datacenter", "-d", dest="datacenter", help="Data center.")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--name", "-n", dest="name", help="Compute name.")
+# TODO: IP, image, etc. pp.
+
+
+def main(argv):
+    args = vars(parser.parse_args(argv))
+    c = ZeroRpcClient()
+    c.execute_command(args)