[libvirt] VMWare support, any news?

[Yushu Yao]

Thanks Daniel,

    Could you point me to the simplest example of one other back-end? (I
looked into "test" one but don't know if it has been different after
refactoring).

     So, consider VMPlayer as an example, I need simply do a system call
"vmplayer --xxx yyy.vmx" in the driver implementation? Am I understanding it
correctly?

-Yushu



On 8/14/08 3:13 PM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Yushu Yao wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>>     I noticed there are some discussion about VMWare support of libvirt
>> several back in April-May. Just wondering is there a prototype yet?
> 
> This is no code that I'm aware of. With the recent libvirt code refactoring
> it should be much quicker/easier to develop additional hypervisor backends
> if someone is motivated .... :-)
> 
>>     The function I¹m interested in is to stop/start a VM by VMWare
>> player/workstation/free server.
> 
> Most of the interest in the past  has been for VMWare ESX server. From
> what I understand we'd need to have completely different drivers for
> ESX  vs  Player/Workstation  because they have no common management API
> capabilities we can use. We'd welcome patches to write a driver for
> either ESX or Player/Workstation or both, since they all have valid use
> cases
> 
> Daniel