thanks Chris I'll try to write somthing and see how it goes shahar ________________________________ From: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com> To: Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com> Cc: veillard@redhat.com; libvir-list@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:18:39 AM Subject: Re: [libvirt] Interface driver and ESX support Shahar Klein wrote:
Let me rephrase my question : )
In the current libvirt infrastructure I can do a lot of things with libvirt and a remote ESX node I can list all the guests I can suspend a guest I can get a lot of node info and much more....
can I (for example) 1. add NIC to a guest domain
From looking at the current libvirt ESX driver (in src/esx/esx_driver.c), it looks like no, this is not implemented yet.
2. list all the physical interfaces on a node
This is also not implemented yet.
If not - what do I need to develop should I expand the current driver
For case 1) above, you should certainly expand the current driver (although again, this all depends on whether the ESX SOAP API supports this operation, which I can't answer). For case 2) above, it's a lot more tricky. If you look at src/interface_driver.c, that is one network interface driver that can enumerate all of the physical devices on a host (using netcf as the backend). *If* the ESX SOAP API's provide something similar, then you possibly could write a new network interface driver for ESX that used the SOAP API's on the backend. This would be a whole new interface driver, and may require new API's (although I'm not sure about this, since I don't know the interface driver very well). -- Chris Lalancette