2009/11/10 Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:26:30AM +0000, H Alexandre wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can see on >> the home page that Libvirt supports Linux virtualization platform (Xen, KVM…) >> but in the bindings page mentions about other languages integration (perl & >> java for instance). >> >> I would >> like to know if there is a way (using those bindings) to use standard Libvirt based code >> to manage VMware virtualization platform ? > > Yes in recent versions of libvirt there is now code allowing to > handle ESX (and GSX), though we still need a driver page for it > under http://libvirt.org/drivers.html (any chance Matthias ;-) ?) I'll move it to the top of my todo list, right before getting another series of 10 patches for ESX upstream :-). Don't worry, I plan them for 0.7.4. > See http://libvirt.org/search.php?query=VMWare&submit=Search > there are various post on this list about this > > the URI format is: > {esx|gsx}://[<user>@]<server>[:<port>][?transport={http|https}][&vcenter=<vcenter>][&no_verify={0|1}] > > in general the following might be sufficient to establish a connection: > > esx://server_name That's the minimal one. In case you see SSL certificate errors you can append the no_verify option: esx://server_name/?no_verify=1 This disables certificate verification for libcurl. > and once you have a connection well, it's like for any other hypervisor, > except you don't need to run libvirtd on the target host since it speaks > directly to the ESX server. > > Matthias is the expert for this driver, I am not :-) > > Daniel > Matthias -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list