[libvirt] VMware support and libcurl on rhel-u1

[Matthias Bolte]

2009/7/27 Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>:
> On 27/07/09 06:17, Shahar Klein wrote:
>>
>> I'll try with 7.15
>>
>> can I test with ESX4i?
>
> ESX4i doesn't seem to work yet - the API version has changed:
>
> error: internal error Expecting VI API version '2.5.0' or '2.5u2' but found
> '4.0'

The driver development was done based on ESX 3.5, I haven't checked
yet what changed between VI API version 2.5 and 4.0, but that's
already on the todo list.

> Patching libvirt to allow the 4.0 API version allows me to connect and list
> guests, but trying to dumpxml a guest definition fails:
>
> virsh # dumpxml alvis
> error: memory conf:1: expecting a name

What's the content of line number 1 of the alvis.vmx file?

> Then again dumpxml fails for me with ESX3i as well, though with a different
> error:
>
> virsh # dumpxml bsa
> error: internal error Missing essential config entry 'scsi0.virtualDev'

Oh, that's a bug in the VMX parsing code, I'll fix that. The VMX
parsing hasn't get much testing with in-the-wild VMX files yet. It
would be useful if you could send my some of your VMX files to build
up a pool as input for automatic testing and to make the VMX parser
more robust.

You could apply this quick fix for testing:

diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vmx.c b/src/esx/esx_vmx.c
index 635a483..dddb7c4 100644
--- a/src/esx/esx_vmx.c
+++ b/src/esx/esx_vmx.c
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ esxVMX_ParseSCSIController(virConnectPtr conn,
virConfPtr conf, int controller,
     }

     if (esxUtil_GetConfigString(conn, conf, virtualDev_name,
-                                virtualDev, 0) < 0) {
+                                virtualDev, 1) < 0) {
         goto failure;
     }


Regards,
  Matthias