Re: [libvirt] VMware ESX driver announcement

Daniel Veillard wrote: >>> The other possibility was to use the libraries they provide to >>>interconnect, but there was a licencing problem, plus you can't expect >>>to have thing installed on the server, so this was a dead end too. >>We looked at this closed source communication library provided by >>VMware too, but dropped it because of the licensing problems. > > Yup, too bad, I'm pretty sure it does most of what you're doing now >and even use libxml2 for doing so too. By not open sourcing it this >means double effort ... Did anyone made an attempt to get it 'free' via the open-vm-tools guys? Becaues I find it hard to believe VMware starts an open source project on one side and doesn't want to help on the other one.