2010/1/15 Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com>:
2010/1/14 Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>:
I'm trying to use the ESX driver to extract metadata from ESX in an easily digestible form for driving V2V. I've noticed the domain XML seems to be missing a few bits:
<features/>
This is currently not implemented, but could be by parsing the CPUIDs. This is on my todo list.
<graphics/>
VMware seems to use a certain type of VNC for this, but they use a custom authentication mechanism. There is a Firefox plugin for that (vmware-mks.xpi), but IIRC its Windows only. I think this could be implemented but there is more research necessary what to expose as graphics element.
Okay, I should have looked at this in more detail before answering... ESX (at least 4.0) supports normal VNC as well. It can be enabled by adding RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "true" RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "<port>" RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "password" to the VMX config. I tested it and it works, but I had to manually open the VNC port range in the ESX firewall using the VI client GUI. I think this can be done using the VI API, but I'm not sure whether the ESX driver should do this automatically or if proper firewall configuration should stay a responsibility of the user. Matthias