[libvirt] VMware ESX driver progress

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the development was hindered by our testing cluster being offline
> since 2 weeks due to server room cooling system maintenance. But I
> finally got a basic version of dump-XML done, that fills all fields of
> the virDomainDef that the VMX file contains data for.
> 
> Changes since first announcement:
> 
> - Move code into esx subdirectory
> - Add esxNodeGetInfo()
> - Fix esxDomainGetInfo() to report the correct value for memory
> - Add memory and max-memory getter/setters
> - Add CPU scheduler getter/setters
> - Validate a migration before trying to perform it
> - Replace esxUtil_Strdup() with strdup() and remove
> esxUtil_MigrateStringFromLibXML()
> - Add esxVI_EnsureSession() to handle expiring sessions
> - Separate VI client code into multiple files and generate most of the
> type handling code with macros
> - Add esxDomainDumpXML() based on esxVMX_ParseConfig()
> 
> The ESX driver isn't complete yet, currently it supports:
> 
> - domain lookup by ID, UUID and name
> - domain listing
> - domain info retrieval
> - domain suspend and resume
> - domain start and destroy
> - domain reboot and shutdown, if the VMware tools are installed inside
> the domain
> - domain migration with previous validation
> - domain memory configuration
> - domain CPU amount and scheduler configuration
> - domain XML-dump
> - domain XML-from-native (VMX)
> - node info retrieval
> - node hostname retrieval

 It's in ! I have no way to really test it (except for the phantom
trick) but it's commited in git, congratulations, well done !

  There is quite a bit left to do but we can handle this incrementally
from now :-)

  Thanks a lot,

Daniel

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