Re: [libvirt] Question about supporting other hypervisor
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:16:14PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Hi, Daniel and all
Thank you for various comments.
These comments are very helpful for me.
Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Atsushi do you know if by default VMWare ESX and Hyper-V allow CIM
> XML access, or if some 'additional' software need to be installed to
> get this to work ? Also if you have feedback about the quality of the
> client CIM APIs implemented (completeness, interoperability ...) that's
> good to know too,
For VMware, there has CIM tool.
http://www.vmware.com/download/sdk/
For Hyper-V, there is a WMI.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa490398.aspx
By the way,
I am not sure the quality of these CIM I/F implementation.
But If there are have a possiblity, I will consider to check it.
Well as Dan Smith pointed out this may get really tedious, especially
the asynchronous part of CIM processing.
Daniel
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