> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Matthias Bolte
> <
matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, don't use esx+ssh://, just use esx://
>>
>> The scheme format <driver>+<transport>:// implies that you want to use
>> the libvirt remote mechanisms via the libvirt daemon (libvirtd) or the
>> server side, but the ESX driver doesn't use this. It directly connects
>> to the ESX server using HTTPS.
>>
>> You do not need to have or install netcat on the ESX server, as said
>> before an out-of-the-box ESX installation is sufficient.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> 2010/3/4 Jonathan Kelley <
jkelley@vm-labs.com>:
>> > I built it from the 0.7.6 sources but it still shows me that it is
>> > running
>> > the 'nc' command on the ESX server (which does not exist). Is netcat
>> > required to be on ESX?
>> >
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1110 : name "esx+ssh://test" to URI
>> > components:
>> > scheme esx+ssh
>> > opaque (null)
>> > authority (null)
>> > server test
>> > user (null)
>> > port 0
>> > path
>> >
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1120 : trying driver 0 (Test) ...
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1126 : driver 0 Test returned DECLINED
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1120 : trying driver 1 (OPENVZ) ...
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1126 : driver 1 OPENVZ returned DECLINED
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1120 : trying driver 2 (VBOX) ...
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1126 : driver 2 VBOX returned DECLINED
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : do_open:1120 : trying driver 3 (remote) ...
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : doRemoteOpen:564 : proceeding with name = esx://
>> > 13:24:26.765: debug : virExecWithHook:640 : ssh test nc -U
>> > /apps/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
>> > 13:24:26.769: debug : remoteIO:8429 : Do proc=66 serial=0 length=28
>> > wait=(nil)
>> > 13:24:26.769: debug : remoteIO:8491 : We have the buck 66 0x7fc565c4b010
>> > 0x7fc565c4b010
>> > 13:24:31.384: error : remoteIOReadBuffer:7707 : server closed connection
>> > 13:24:31.384: debug : remoteIOEventLoop:8376 : Giving up the buck due to
>> > I/O
>> > error 66 0x7fc565c4b010 (nil)
>> > 13:24:31.384: debug : do_open:1126 : driver 3 remote returned ERROR
>> > 13:24:31.384: debug : virUnrefConnect:259 : unref connection 0x1146d20 1
>> > 13:24:31.384: debug : virReleaseConnect:216 : release connection
>> > 0x1146d20
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jon
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Matthias Bolte
>> > <
matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >> 2010/3/4 Jonathan Kelley <
jkelley@vm-labs.com>:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am trying to access an ESXi host using libvirt but it seems that it
>> >>> requires netcat to be running on the ESX server.
>> >>>
>> >>> My ESX 4 does not have this installed and I am wondering if this is
>> >>> required or is there some other way to get this working?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Jon
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> No, you do not have to install anything on the ESX or ESXi server.
>> >> libvirt works with an out-of-the-box installation of ESX.
>> >>
>> >> Make sure your libvirt version is new enough (0.7.0 or newer) and that
>> >> the ESX support is enabled. For example if you've installed libvirt
>> >> from Debian packages then you'll need to build libvirt from source,
>> >> because Debian explicitly disables ESX support in their packages for
>> >> some unknown reason.
>> >>
>> >> See
http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html if you haven't yet.
>> >>
>> >> Matthias
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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