Re: [libvirt] Some questions about the libvirt ESX driver
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:29:10PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
I've never seen this error message from the ESX server before.
Many
errors reported by the ESX server contain a details section, but the
deserialization of this details requires many new SOAP types and I
haven't implemented this yet.
Can we get LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 to just dump the SOAP response?
/me checks the source ...
It seems like currently debug output is hard-coded into a #define.
Having it wired to LIBVIRT_DEBUG would allow people to debug these
issues without needing to recompile.
Can you start the domain using the VI client? Maybe the domain
really
is in a state where it cannot be started.
OK, turns out that the VMWare server was in "maintenance mode".
What's wrong with it in your opinion? The <source file>
attribute is
correct. See the ESX driver website section [3] about this.
Nothing wrong with it, just a bit unusual. But as you say, it is a
valid path according to ESX's unusual path convention.
> (e) pool-list, net-list are not supported by the driver.
[...]
I plan to implement the ESX driver as complete as possible, this
includes network and storage handling. I've took a look at this some
time ago and saw some problems. For examples datastores don't have a
UUID, so I may need to make them up and store them somewhere like the
IBM Power driver does it for the domain UUIDs, the libvirt network
model cannot represent a vSwitch ... I think these drivers are much
harder to implemented than the main ESX driver, so don't expect any
news on this in the next weeks, but stay tuned :)
What do you mean by "to access the VMDK files that contain domains",
just list them?
It's so that we can inspect the VM's disk, for virt-inspector:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-inspector.1.html
Ideally we'd like to download all or part of the VM's disk (ie. VMDK
file(s)).
Thanks for your detailed reply!
Rich.
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