2010/3/9 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>:
Hi Matthias, On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/3/8 Dimitris Kalogeras <D.Kalogeras@noc.ntua.gr>:
Hi *,
Apologies for cross posting. I have installed the the libvirt and virt-toolss in an ubuntu karmic 9.10. I am trying to access-manage an ESX 3.5i via ssh protocol. Although I have configured and verified that ssh access operates correctly with keys, when I try to access the ESX via virt-manager, it doesn't work.
Cheers, Dimitris
You're the second one that asks this question in the last few days. Maybe I should take this as an indication that I need to improve the ESX driver documentation. We don't have the ESX driver enabled in Debian at the moment:
configure: Xen: yes configure: Proxy: no configure: QEMU: yes configure: UML: yes configure: OpenVZ: yes configure: VBox: yes configure: LXC: yes configure: PHYP: no configure: ONE: no configure: ESX: no configure: Test: yes configure: Remote: yes configure: Network: yes configure: Libvirtd: yes configure: netcf: no configure: macvtap: no
Since Ubuntu basically uses the Debian packges they don't have this enabled either. The current diff against Debian is at:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/libv/libvirt/libvirt_0.7.5-5ubuntu12.patch
which hasn't any ./configure changes except for apparmor support so I doubt this can work at all on Ubuntu.
Dimitris, you should file an Ubuntu Bug. Matthias, I'd be more than happy to enable ESX support in Debian but I don't have any means of testing it. Cheers, -- Guido
Ah, I see. You could use the 60 days evaluation version of ESXi 4.0 for testing. A small hurdle is that you need supported hardware, at leasts a supported NIC. Once in a while, when I can't use my ESX servers in the university's cluster, I use an ESXi installed on an USB flash drive with my notebook that has a supported Intel NIC. Storage is provided via NFS then. Matthias