<div dir="ltr">I used libvirt-0.8.8. <div>I think it is the last version on the website. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Abbas <<a href="mailto:akhan@phi9.com" target="_blank">akhan@phi9.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is your libvirt up-to-date?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On 10/23/2012 06:39 PM, Ali Nikzad wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> No, I just tried it but it didn't connect. After it gets the username and password it shows the following error message: error: internal error Expecting VI API major/minor version '2.5' or '4.x' but found '5.0' On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Matthias Bolte < <a href="mailto:matthias.bolte@googlemail.com" target="_blank">matthias.bolte@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The documentation is outdated. libvirt also supports ESXi 5.0. What is the exact error you get? You already said that it reports being connected to ESXi 5.0. Why do you expect it to report 4.x? 2012/10/23 Abbas <<a href="mailto:akhan@phi9.com" target="_blank">akhan@phi9.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Yes, that seems to be correct. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The libvirt VMware ESX driver can manage VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x and VMware GSX 2.0, also called VMware Server 2.0, and possibly later </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> versions. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Since 0.8.3 the driver can also connect to a VMware vCenter 2.5/4.x </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> (VPX). <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 10/23/2012 07:40 AM, Ali Nikzad wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thank you Abbas, I already tried it but I got a message saying it found version 5.0 </blockquote></blockquote> instead <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> of 4.x. It seems that libvirt does not support ESXi 5.0. I used the command in libvirt-0.8.8 the windows version. Ali On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Abbas <<a href="mailto:akhan@phi9.com" target="_blank">akhan@phi9.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> You could write a bash or batch script to do that. Normal connect format is "virsh -c esx://yournode" "virsh start [domain]" is what starts a VM. Refer to the man pages for virsh command set. /Abbas On 10/23/2012 02:47 AM, Ali Nikzad wrote: Hi, I am a new libvirt user and I wonder if I can use this library to start or stop a VM in ESXi 5.0. For example to write an application using libvirt in windows or linux that connects to an ESXi 5.0 server and get the list of VMs and start one of them. If so, is there any sample about it? 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