[one-users] VMware Driver Addon installation

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear Antoni,

Yes, you are right. For the VMware Addon you just need to install
libvirt (with VMware support) in the OpenNebula front-end.

Regards,

-Tino

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



On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, antoni artigues <tartigues at iac3.eu> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> Well, I'm not sure.
>
> I'm searching information on the libvirt web site, here
> http://www.libvirt.org/drvesx.html. It says:
>
> None. Any out-of-the-box installation of VPX/ESX(i)/GSX should work. No
> preparations are required on the server side, no libvirtd must be
> installed on the ESX server. The driver uses version 2.5 of the remote,
> SOAP based VMware Virtual Infrastructure API (VI API) to communicate
> with the ESX server, like the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client (VI
> client) does. Since version 4.0 this API is called VMware vSphere API.
>
> So, I think it's only mandatory to install the libvirt client on the
> front-end. Anybody can confirm it?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> regards
>
> Antoni Artigues
>
>
> El jue, 27-01-2011 a las 12:00 +0200, Daniel.MOLDOVAN at cs.utcluj.ro
> escribió:
>> Considering that libvirt is the linux virtualization toolkit used for the
>> virtualization process by the hypervisors, it should be installed where
>> the virtualization process takes place, and that is on the cluster nodes.
>>
>> În Joi, Ianuarie 27, 2011 9:59 am, antoni artigues a scris:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> >
>> > We want to install the VMware Driver Addon.
>> >
>> >
>> > In the documentation there is one prerequisite: Install libvirt.
>> >
>> >
>> > Only one question about that: Where do we have to install libvirt?
>> > Only in the front-end or also in each cluster node?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
>> >
>> > Antoni Artigues
>> >
>> >
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