[one-users] Fwd: Opennebula VMWare drivers

[Tino Vazquez]

FYI

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Hi,

Sure, please open a issue in dev.opennebula.org (you can request an account
if you don't have one already). The development portal is the place to
discuss the VMware drivers.

Regards,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula



On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Emmanuel Mathot <emmanuel.mathot at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thank you Tino for your update about VMWare driver.
> Is there any dedicated pace for discussing specifically about VMWare
> driver, contributing or for reporting issues? Should I use ONE project on
> redmine?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Emmanuel Mathot
>
>
> On 17 Nov 2011, at 11:57, Tino Vazquez wrote:
>
> Dear Emmanuel,
>
> The next stable release (v3.0) of the VMware addon  is due by the end of
> the month.
>
> About your first point, we do indeed use libvirt to interact with VMware
> hypervisors, but it does provide all the functionality for the correct
> support of VMware within ONE. You can compare it with the KVM driver, which
> also uses libvirt. It is true that the VI SDK offers richer functionality
> than the one encapsulated by libvirt, but ONE doesn't use it (for now).
>
> Which leads us to your second point, the answer to which is that we will
> do that eventually, when the libvirt project doesn't catch up (next in line
> is try vSphere 5 support, which I believe is compatible at the API level)
> or when we need extra functionality not covered by libvirt.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Emmanuel Mathot <
> emmanuel.mathot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to know the status of the VMWare drivers add-on. In fact, I
>> use the latest version 3.0.0 beta 1 but no information or news about a
>> stable release and I did not find any project on dev.opennebula.org to
>> post messages about it.
>> My wondering is double:
>>
>> 1) For what I know using it for a certain time now, VMWare driver is
>> actually a libvirt driver dealing with gsx or esx protocol. This implies
>> the support of libvirt for VMWare which is not really the case (ESXi 5 not
>> supported and no roadmap to do it). Some useful functionalities proposed in
>> VMWare ESXi are not available through the current driver. This leads to the
>> second point
>>
>> 2) Is there any ongoing development of a "native" VMWare driver using
>> either "vSphere CLI for linux" or the "vSphere Web Services"?
>>
>> Thanks for your answers.
>>
>> Emmanuel Mathot
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>>
>>
>
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