On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2013/9/19 Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 09/19/2013 11:11 AM, varun bhatnagar wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have started a virtual machine on my ESXi server. I was trying to attach >>> a console to it but when I executed the command I got a message saying that >>> *"Attaching a console is not supported in the current hypervisor." *Is >>> there any way (patch or something) through which I can attach a console to >>> my VM. >>> The ESX version is 5.1 and I am using latest version of libvirt. >> >> I don't know if ESX is capable of supporting a console connection; if it >> is, it is a matter of finding someone willing to write the patch that >> interfaces the ESX interface with libvirt. Are you willing to take on >> that task? > > ESX supports VM serial console access. I once started to implement > this in libvirt, but never got around to finish it. My Linux > development box and ESX test server are broken at the moment. I'll > have to fix them first. > > -- > Matthias Bolte > http://photron.blogspot.com > If you give me access (or a copy of ESX), I'll see what I can do since I've been hacking at the VMware support in libvirt lately. For that matter if you've got access to a copy of VMware Fusion as well that'd be awesome so that I can test the changes I'm making instead of relying on others to test. *hint any VMware people following the list* -- Doug Goldstein -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list