<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hello,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’m trying to use the tool virsh of libvirt.<o:p></o:p> I want to manage via CLI a vm on a vmware hypervisor which is hosted on a remote host (Is that what you call the node??).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I read a lot of thing on your site but I really don’t understand how to do something…<o:p></o:p> I saw that:<o:p></o:p> <pre>>virsh edit $your-vm-name<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>I think “$your-vm-name” is the xml file you’re talking about?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Is it mandatory to use those XML file in order to use virsh? (Because it is very huge!)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I also saw this way of using virsh : <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>virsh --connect esx://user@hypervisorHost://path/to/myVM.vmx<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Result is: <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>error: invalid argument in libvirt was built without the 'esx' driver<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>What is the problem here?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>For information, I installed libvirt-0.8.7, can you give me the first step to manage an existing vm hosted on a distant vmWare (via CLI).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Thank you in advance.<o:p></o:p></pre></div> </body> </html>