2012/12/30 Ata Bohra <ata.husain@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Everyone, > > Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! > > I'm trying to upload disk to ESX 5.0 server using the URL obtained by the > server (during VM installation process); I'm using libcurl support in > libvirt to upload the disk, but I get this error on file upload: > ---------------------- > * About to connect() to <ip> port 443 (#1) > * Trying <ip>... * connected > * found 153 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt > * server certificate verification SKIPPED > * compression: NULL > * cipher: AES-128-CBC > * MAC: SHA1 >> PUT /ha-nfc/52c6d592-7636-67c5-29f3-d5b373be4f42/disk-0.vmdk HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: libvirt-esx > Host: <ip> > Accept: */* > Cookie: vmware_soap_session="521af33d-2bbe-38aa-21e8-13d474ccb023" > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 > SOAPAction: "urn:vim25" > Content-Length: 7021568 > < HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden > < Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:28:19 GMT > < Connection: close > < Content-Type: text; charset=plain > < Content-Length: 44 > ---------------------- The URL /ha-nfc/52c6d592-7636-67c5-29f3-d5b373be4f42/disk-0.vmdk looks like the lease you get during OVA import on the ESX server to upload a disk image to, isn't it? I'm not sure why you would get and Forbidden error from the server here. Are you logged in with an restricted user account instead of the root account? > To achieve this operation I've added a routine to support file Upload (for > ESX driver as currently it only support buffer upload), I verified its > functioning my uploading a file using datastore based URL: > (http(s)//<ip>/file??dcPath=ha-datacenter?dsName=xxx). Are you trying to upload directly to the root of the datastore? IIRC this isn't allowed and you can only upload subdirectories in the datastore as in http(s)//<ip>/subdirectory/file??dcPath=ha-datacenter?dsName=xxx -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list