Re: [libvirt] Interface driver and ESX support
thanks Chris
I'll try to write somthing
and see how it goes
shahar
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From: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com>
To: Shahar Klein <shaharklein(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: veillard(a)redhat.com; libvir-list(a)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).
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Chris Lalancette
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