Re: [Libvir] a vmware driver
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:23:06AM -0600, Schley Andrew Kutz wrote:
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Does anyone know if there is work being done on a VMware driver? If
not, I could write one. I'm about to release an application via
SearchServerVirtualization called ivi (Java Virtual Interface) that
uses the VI SDK and the XenApi (cannot get libvirt to work on my dev
platform - OS X) to enable management of both VMware VI3 boxes as well
as Xen boxes. I would love to move away from the XenApi to libvirt,
and even more so to extend libvirt to support the VI SDK.
There's probably 2 different ways to write a VMWare driver, depending on
who your target audience is.
For people using the VirtualIntrastructure stuff, there is a enourmous
management API which you talk to using RPC (there are WSDL definition
for it IIRC).
For people using VMWare Desktop / Player / GSX there is a not really any
good API. We'd have to manually read/write config files for guests in the
directory that VMWare stores them, and invoke CLI tools to stop/start.
Ultimately I think we'll need impls for both approaches becaue they are
both valid non-overlapping use cases (home users vs enterprise). AFAIK,
there's no one working on either approach, so feel free to take a stab at
it !
Regards,
Dan.
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