Re: [libvirt] VMWare support, any news?
Thanks Daniel,
Could you point me to the simplest example of one other back-end? (I
looked into "test" one but don't know if it has been different after
refactoring).
So, consider VMPlayer as an example, I need simply do a system call
"vmplayer --xxx yyy.vmx" in the driver implementation? Am I understanding it
correctly?
-Yushu
On 8/14/08 3:13 PM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Yushu Yao wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed there are some discussion about VMWare support of libvirt
> several back in April-May. Just wondering is there a prototype yet?
This is no code that I'm aware of. With the recent libvirt code refactoring
it should be much quicker/easier to develop additional hypervisor backends
if someone is motivated .... :-)
> The function I¹m interested in is to stop/start a VM by VMWare
> player/workstation/free server.
Most of the interest in the past has been for VMWare ESX server. From
what I understand we'd need to have completely different drivers for
ESX vs Player/Workstation because they have no common management API
capabilities we can use. We'd welcome patches to write a driver for
either ESX or Player/Workstation or both, since they all have valid use
cases
Daniel