[libvirt-users] virsh for VMWare

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:27:02PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [libvirt-users should be able to help out]
> 
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:58:09PM +0000, John L. Magee wrote:
> > Rich- do you know a way we could use virsh in scripts without
> > manually entering the username/password creds for every invocation?
> > Or could you point me to a source who may be able to help? We need
> > to be able to set Linux VM memory and cpu configurations from a
> > linux monitoring system and, if the cred entry could be overcome,
> > virsh would be so much simpler than conventional VMWare
> > alternatives.

Yep libvirt supports a config file for credentials

  http://libvirt.org/auth.html#Auth_client_config


For vmware esx IIRC you would create

  $HOME/.config/libvirt/auth.conf

containing

  [credentials-prod]
  username=fred
  password=123456

  [auth-esx-test1.example.com]
  credentials=prod

  [auth-esx-test2.example.com]
  credentials=prod

  [auth-esx-test3.example.com]
  credentials=prod

Regards,
Daniel
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