[libvirt] VolumeCreateXML "XML" description for ESX

[Justin Clift]

Matthias, sounds like there's a bug or we need to update the docs?


On 02/12/2010, at 11:02 PM, Sherif Nagy wrote:
> yes i am using same template like KVM but it is not working, seems ESX driver has a different XML structure since it is using datatstore /dir/filename.vdk structure.
> 
> so any idea what is the XML structure for creating the XML for volumes using the ESX driver? 
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> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2010, at 8:18 PM, Sherif Nagy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using libvirt 0.8.6 "python bindings " can someone point me to where i find the XML description of creating volumes using storagecolumecreateXML function ? i am getting libvir: ESX error : internal error Volume name 'nameXXXX.vmdk' doesn't have expected format '<directory>/<file>'
> 
> Hi Sherif,
> 
> In theory, it's probably supposed to work with the "standard" storage and pool XML format documented here:
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>  http://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html
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> But, it sounds like in practise that's not working for you.  Is that the case?
> 
> Regards and best wishes,
> 
> Justin Clift
>