On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:24:00PM +0200, Marek 'marx' Grac wrote:

Hi,

I know that there is no support for VMWare ESX yet but I would like to know if someone is working on it. I need just three basic operations: status/power on/power off but I never saw the source code of libvirt :) Do you think it is possible to write this support (using VMWare API) in acceptable time? week? month?

I have been looking at VMWare APIs a bit in the last weeks. There is no support right now. I am tempted to access VMWare by using the WEB service API (not the VIX one, I'm not sure it would be able to connect remotely to a standard ESX). The API is a bit complex (I'm certainly biased though) and I'm not yet able to list to resources from C code. But once you have a handle to the right VM it looks relatively easy to get status and power on/off assuming the rights to do so. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/