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 <<a href="mailto:matthias.bolte@googlemail.com">matthias.bolte@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > 2010/3/4 Jonathan Kelley <<a href="mailto:jkelley@vm-labs.com">jkelley@vm-labs.com</a>>: >> 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 <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html">http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html</a> if you haven't yet. > > Matthias >