[one-users] ESX ability to see existing VMs

[Jonathan Kelley]

Hi Tino,

Yes my hosts are registered in esx and I can see them in vSphere,  
through perl API and libvirt. Nothing shows up in opennebula commands.  
Does the driver support esxi 4?

Thanks.
-Jon

On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at fdi.ucm.es> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> By register in ESX I mean that the Hypervisor is aware of the VM, even
> though it may not be running. If you use VMware's Virtual
> Infrastructure Client (VIC), you will be able to see which VMs are
> registered in a specific ESX (if they appear in the left side's tree
> view, then they are registered).
>
> Regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez, Grid & Virtualization Technology
> Engineer/Researcher: http://www.dsa-research.org/tinova
> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
> Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
> OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jonathan Kelley <jkelley at vm- 
> labs.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tino,
>>
>> Thanks for your response. What do you mean by unregister them? Giving
>> the vmx file path or something to OpenNebula will then register them?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at fdi.ucm.es>  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> OpenNebula will try and register existing VMs, so any preregistered
>>> VMs won't be able to be used with OpenNebula. To correctly use them,
>>> you will need to unregister them by hand first.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>>
>>> -Tino
>>>
>>> --
>>> Constantino Vázquez, Grid & Virtualization Technology
>>> Engineer/Researcher: http://www.dsa-research.org/tinova
>>> DSA Research Group: http://dsa-research.org
>>> Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org
>>> OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Kelley <jkelley at vm- 
>>> labs.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am fairly new to OpenNebula (today) but I got my ESX host to be  
>>>> added
>>>> (after some problems realizing I absolutely needed FQDN).
>>>> However my question is what is to come of the VMs that exist on  
>>>> my ESX host.
>>>> Can OpenNebula register those VMs? Or can I only add/create new  
>>>> ones?
>>>> I am running OpenNebula 1.4 and ESXi 4.0.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jon Kelley
>>>>
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>>>
>>