[libvirt] VMware support and libcurl on rhel-u1

[Tom Hughes]

On 27/07/09 09:19, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2009/7/27 Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu>:
>
>> 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?

The first two lines are:

.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"

Looking at an ESX3i one I see the .encoding line is not there so I guess 
that is the problem.

>> 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:

That works, yes.

Tom

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