2015-05-21 22:53 GMT+02:00 <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi everyone, > > I searched previous postings and I couldn't find a definitive answer on > this.. > > I run a small lab of RHEL/Centos Based servers on which there's VMWare > Workstation running on a non-standard port but still manageable by tools > like VMrun (and the Fusion of Workstation GUI, of course). > > I'm trying to use virsh with this setup and getting the following error from > both RHEL6 and RHEL7: > > $ virsh -c esx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1 > Enter user1's password for server1: > error: internal error Expecting product 'gsx' or 'esx' or 'embeddedEsx' or > 'vpx' but found 'ws' > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > > I tried 'gsx' as a type too but to no avail. > The mode that I'm using is called by vmware a 'ws-shared' mode..: > > $ /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws-shared -h https://localhost:943/sdk -u user1 > listRegisteredVM > Host password: > Total registered VMs: 35 > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node1/VCS4.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node2/VCS4.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node3/VCS4.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node4/VCS4.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node1/VCS5.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node2/VCS5.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node3/VCS5.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node4/VCS5.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] DOS622/dos.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris8/solaris8.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris10/solaris10.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node1/VCS6.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node2/VCS6.vmx > [ha-datacenter/standard] MacOSX_107/Mac_OS_X_Lion.vmx > [...] > > Would that be something easy to hack/add for the libvirt versions I'm using? > (RHEL6/7) even if this means recompiling some src.rpms.. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, Here's a quick hack you can test. It should make the ESX driver treat a VMware Workstation as VMware GSX server. This should work then: virsh -c gsx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1 -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com
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