[libvirt] ESX with Python binding

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:45:06PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2009/11/3 Dave Bryson <daveb at miceda.org>:
> > I'm new to libvirt.  Is it possible to use the python binding with the
> > latest ESX support? If so, does anyone have a simple example I can try?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Dave
> >
> 
> Yes, just use the libvirt Python bindings as you would with Xen or
> QEmu. There are some basic examples in the examples/python directory.
> The tricky part is the authentication. None of the available examples
> demonstrates how to use the authentication callback with the
> openAuth() method in Python. So I took one of the existing example
> scripts and switched it from openReadOnly() to openAuth().
> 
> python esxlist.py <esx-hostname>
> 
> It'll prompt for username and password and then list all active
> virtual machines on this ESX server.
> 
> You may see remote errors complaining about missing certificates:
> 
>   Cannot access CA certificate '/usr/local/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No
> such file or directory
> 
> This is expected, libvirt tries to find network and storage drivers
> for ESX, but those are not implemented yet. While searching for this
> drivers, libvirt may try to start a local libvirtd instance, but fails
> because of the missing certificates. It'll warn about that:
> 
>   Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running?
> 
> This is also expected and can be ignored.
> 
> PS: There is currently no user documentation on the libvirt website
> about the ESX support. It's on my todo list to write such
> documentation soon. So feel free to ask questions.

  Feel free to add it as well as your explanations in examples/python/
and examples/python/README :-)

 thanks !

Daniel

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