On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:39:21PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Daniel Veillard wrote: > >>> The other possibility was to use the libraries they provide to > >>>interconnect, but there was a licencing problem, plus you can't expect > >>>to have thing installed on the server, so this was a dead end too. > >>We looked at this closed source communication library provided by > >>VMware too, but dropped it because of the licensing problems. > > > > Yup, too bad, I'm pretty sure it does most of what you're doing now > >and even use libxml2 for doing so too. By not open sourcing it this > >means double effort ... > > Did anyone made an attempt to get it 'free' via the open-vm-tools guys? > Becaues I find it hard to believe VMware starts an open source project > on one side and doesn't want to help on the other one. open-vm-tools has nothing todo with managing ESX hosts. It is a set of tools and drivers for host <-> guest communication. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list