Re: [Libvir] a vmware driver

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:23:06AM -0600, Schley Andrew Kutz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know if there is work being done on a VMware driver? If > not, I could write one. I'm about to release an application via > SearchServerVirtualization called ivi (Java Virtual Interface) that > uses the VI SDK and the XenApi (cannot get libvirt to work on my dev > platform - OS X) to enable management of both VMware VI3 boxes as > well > as Xen boxes. I would love to move away from the XenApi to libvirt, > and even more so to extend libvirt to support the VI SDK. There's probably 2 different ways to write a VMWare driver, depending on who your target audience is. For people using the VirtualIntrastructure stuff, there is a enourmous management API which you talk to using RPC (there are WSDL definition for it IIRC). For people using VMWare Desktop / Player / GSX there is a not really any good API. We'd have to manually read/write config files for guests in the directory that VMWare stores them, and invoke CLI tools to stop/start. Ultimately I think we'll need impls for both approaches becaue they are both valid non-overlapping use cases (home users vs enterprise). AFAIK, there's no one working on either approach, so feel free to take a stab at it ! Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/ ~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/ ~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|

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