On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:01:59AM -0600, Amudhan Gunasekaran wrote: > Hi, > > I am investigating libvirt to find out whether adding a hypervisor support is possible. I went through libvirt.c and found that all the operations are done through the struct virConnect. But virConnect is not exposed to public. So, if I want to add a minimum support for VMWare and Hyper-V hypervisors, is it possible? If it is possible, how should I proceed. Basically each kind of hypervisor is registered though a driver, an non-public structure but acting as a separation between the generic part of the library and the specifics of each hypervisor. See the virDriver structure defined in driver.h and the file test.c implementing one of the simplest drivers. The driver modules then export a single function to register the driver (e.g. testRegister() in test.[ch]) which is then called in virInitialize(). Of course that means the hypervisor driver need to be compiled as part of libvirt sources. When you wrote "minimum support for VMWare", how did you expect to achieve this, I have looked at this too, there is at least a couple of options (VIX or SOAP rpc basically), i started looking at the SOAP possibility. One of the interesting challenge is keeping the LGPL licencing of the library. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list