<div dir="ltr">Great ! it did pass the error of directory/file thank you for the support now i have another problem of creating the VMDK image with this XML <volume><name>test_vm/test_vm.vmdk</name><allocation>0</allocation><capacity unit='G'>2</capacity><target><format type='vmdk'/></target></volume> and error libvir: ESX error : internal error Could not create volume Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1116, in createXML if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virStorageVolCreateXML() failed', pool=self) libvirt.libvirtError: internal error Could not create volume may be it is an ESX server side problem or i am still missing or messing up something ? Regards, sherif <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Matthias Bolte <<a href="mailto:matthias.bolte@googlemail.com">matthias.bolte@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">This XML snippet should work <volume> <name>test_vm/test_vm.vmdk</name> <div class="im"> <allocation>0</allocation> <capacity unit='G'>2</capacity> </volume> </div>The error message says that the volume name doesn't have the expected format <directory>/<file>. The <> might be misleading here, they don't refer to XML elements. I can probably relax this and allow files in the datastore root. The problem with a .vmdk file in the datastore root is that ESX doesn't allow a virtual machine to be registered (or defined in libvirt terms) in the datastore root. The typical layout is to have a subdirectory per virtual machine. Matthias 2010/12/2 Sherif Nagy <<a href="mailto:sherif.nagy@gmail.com">sherif.nagy@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="h5">> The XML i am trying to use is > "<volume><name>test_vm.vmdk</name><key></key><allocation>0</allocation><capacity > unit='G'>2</capacity></volume>" > > or > > "<volume><name>test_vm.vmdk</name><directory>test_vm<file>test_vm.vmdk</file></directory><key></key><allocation>0</allocation><capacity > unit='G'>2</capacity></volume>" > > and if i added directory and file directive i am still getting the same > error, i am not sure if i am doing something wrong or it is a bug , can > someone please advice me what is the correct XML structure for creating > volume using the ESX driver ? > > Thank You > Regards, > Sherif > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Justin Clift <<a href="mailto:jclift@redhat.com">jclift@redhat.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Matthias, sounds like there's a bug or we need to update the docs? >> >> >> On 02/12/2010, at 11:02 PM, Sherif Nagy wrote: >> > yes i am using same template like KVM but it is not working, seems ESX >> > driver has a different XML structure since it is using datatstore >> > /dir/filename.vdk structure. >> > >> > so any idea what is the XML structure for creating the XML for volumes >> > using the ESX driver? >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Justin Clift <<a href="mailto:jclift@redhat.com">jclift@redhat.com</a>> wrote: >> > On 02/12/2010, at 8:18 PM, Sherif Nagy wrote: >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > I am using libvirt 0.8.6 "python bindings " can someone point me to >> > > where i find the XML description of creating volumes using >> > > storagecolumecreateXML function ? i am getting libvir: ESX error : internal >> > > error Volume name 'nameXXXX.vmdk' doesn't have expected format >> > > '<directory>/<file>' >> > >> > Hi Sherif, >> > >> > In theory, it's probably supposed to work with the "standard" storage >> > and pool XML format documented here: >> > >> > <a href="http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html" target="_blank">http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html</a> >> > >> > But, it sounds like in practise that's not working for you. Is that the >> > case? >> > >> > Regards and best wishes, >> > >> > Justin Clift >> > >> >> >> -- >> libvir-list mailing list >> <a href="mailto:libvir-list@redhat.com">libvir-list@redhat.com</a> >> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list</a> > > </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>