[libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Restrict vpx:// to handle a single host in a vCenter

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:10:57PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2010/8/2 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> > it seems to me that this change the behaviour of vServer access, so
> > I'm tempted to get this pushed in 0.8.3, rather than wait for the next
> > version to change things. On one hand this breaks the freeze, but
> > this is focused to one specific kind of hypervisor whose support is
> > being added, so I think this is fine to push before the release if you
> > agree,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> 
> This patch is the reason that I asked you to delay 0.8.3 a bit. Prior
> to this patch you could connect to a whole vCenter, this resulted in
> multiple problems as you already saw in the initial vCenter patch. The
> bunch of "TODOs without an error message". Also Dan pointed out that
> being able to connect to a whole vCenter is probably out of libvirt's
> scope.
> 
> With this patch the vCenter connection is restricted to a single ESX
> server. This solves all the "TODOs without an error message".
> Including the patch into 0.8.3 makes sure that we have the opportunity
> to relax the restrictions on a vCenter connection later on (if that
> turns out to be to be feasible), instead of having to apply
> restrictions in later releases.
> 
> The other 4 patches just came along with this one, and I'd like to
> include all 5 into 0.8.3.

  Okay, fine by me, please push, I will make the release, probably
tomorrow,

  thanks !

Daniel

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