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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 -- 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.mat...@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.mat...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.opennebula.org >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >> >> > >
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