[one-users] VMWare VIM

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear Igor,

Currently, the VMware drivers directly uses the VI SDK to access the
SOAP API exposed by the VMware hypervisors.

We have in mind a complete redesign of the drivers to use tools as you
mention, to abstract them of the use of changing properties.

Thanks for the great feedback!

Regards,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova
Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher
OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org



On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Igor Rosenberg
<igor.rosenberg at atosresearch.eu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have just discovered that VMware provides some command-line tools (called
> VIM) to interact with the hypervisor. If I have (ssh) access to the phusical
> host, I can: list VMs in the local "VM repository", list the running VMs,
> instruct the hypervisor to start/stop a VM, make snapshots, etc. This is
> described in [1]. The key sentence is "The Virtual Infrastructure metashell
> is an undocumented and unsupported shell accessible from within the console
> on an ESX server". It also works with VMware Server 2.0. Is this what is
> being used for the current VMWare driver? I'm not yet sure if it makes
> assumptions on the VMs.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.vi-toolkit.com/wiki/index.php/Vimsh
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Igor
>
>
>
>
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