[libvirt] VMware: Map vpx:// to dcPath

[Matthias Bolte]

2015-09-16 10:47 GMT+02:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:55:03PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> 2015-09-07 22:04 GMT+02:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:
>> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:29:22PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> >> I think the datacenter path could be exposed
>> >> as part of the domain XML as
>> >> <vmware:datacenterpath>/path/to/dc</vmware:datacenterpath> similar to
>> >> the way <qemu:commandline> works. But it would be ignored on parsing.
>> >>
>> >> Would that work for you? If yes, I can propose a patch that does this.
>> >
>> > Absolutely this would be brilliant.
>>
>> Okay, here's patch that does this. It's only tested using the test
>> suite, as I don't have an ESX setup at hand at the moment. Do you have
>> the possibility to test this properly?
>
>> From 489e2d5dd29dd4b11716897ca52b14f6666ec141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:00:47 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] vmx: Expose datacenter path in domain XML
>
> If you're happy with this patch, I'd like to push it to the libvirt
> repo.  I didn't see any later version on the list.  Let me know if
> this is the final version.
>
> Also I have opened a BZ for the problem so the fix can be included in
> RHEL 7.3:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263574

Regarding your question about the changes to the VMware driver: The
only required change is the addition for "ctx.datacenterPath = NULL"
where virVMXParseConfig is called. The other additions are not really
necessary. I made them for the sake of completeness and to match the
usage in the ESX driver.

Overall I'm happy with this patch. The only concern I have is that the
domain XML might not be quite the right place to expose this
information. But there are not many other places to expose this
without adding new public API. But I assume that the domain XML is the
most convenient was for libguestfs to get this information, isn't it?

Anyway, there is no later version of this patch. I'm okay with you
pushing it to the libvirt repo.

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Matthias Bolte
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