On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:27:52PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a way to use virsh to connect to vCenter/VCSA and do some > > simple management of the VM's in case of power loss (I'm planning to run > > the script upon UPS/apcd event of power failure). > > > > Looking through the virsh documentation, I didn't find 2 things: > > I'm not familiar with the VCSA solution topology, but virsh is just cli > frontend to libvirt APIs, the documentation you're looking for is here [1]. aand of course I forgot to link the URI itself: [1] https://libvirt.org/drvesx.html Erik > > > > > 1. Login through a script (I don't see any user/password, specially since > > VCSA for example requires to use username@vsphere.local [or your AD domaino > > Unless you use the C/Python/Other APIs directly where you can actually specify > a callback that is called during the authentication phase, you're stuck with > the default callback which provides you with a prompt which reads from stdin. > > > insteadd of vsphere.local if you connected it to your AD domain]) > > 2. Get all the VMs running on the vCenter, not just specific hosts. > > you're connecting via the ESX driver (using the type 'vpx' in the URI schema), > which from libvirt's point of view is client-side only which means that we use > the driver to talk to the vCenter. When querying the list of machines, I would > expect the vCenter/ESX server to return the list of all VMs on all vCenter > nodes, if not so, then either our driver needs to be updated to reflect the > changes or the backend API (the ESX server/vCenter) doesn't support this > feature and you'll need to query all the nodes manually. > > I never tried using the esx driver, so that's just my understanding of how I > think things are supposed to work, i.e. it's fairly out of libvirt's reach, > since we just call the corresponding remote APIs the ESX provides, there's no > daemon we can control. > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
