[libvirt] VMware: Map vpx:// to dcPath

vpx:// paths looks like this: vpx://vcenter.example.com/MyFolder/MyDatacenter/MyCluster/esxi but to connect to the datastore to read the underlying disk image, libguestfs must form a URL like this: https://vcenter.example.com/folder/data/guest/guest-flat.vmdk?dcPath=MyFo... All parts of this URL can be worked out from the URL or the libvirt XML *except* the ?dcPath=... parameter. The problem is that dcPath isn't a straight mapping from the vpx:// path. The particular problem is that if there is a cluster name in the path (eg 'MyCluster') it appears that we have to remove it. ie: dcPath=MyFolder/MyDatacenter/MyCluster - does not work dcPath=MyFolder/MyDatacenter - works That would be OK if there was always a cluster name at the end of the path, but there isn't. Clusters are completely optional, and AFAIK you can't tell if something is a cluster path element just by examining the name, since clusters can be given arbitrary names by the vCenter admin. So: (1) Is there something I'm missing here? Maybe the libvirt VMware driver presents this information already and I'm just missing it? (2) Can we add some way to more easily map from vpx:// paths to datastore URLs? The whole process is very complex even without the ambiguity - it takes a couple of pages of code to do the mapping. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top