On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Michael DeHaan mdehaan@redhat.com wrote:
Scott Henson wrote:
Jasper Capel wrote:
Hi all,
Me and Joep Piscaer are planning on doing some Cobbler + ESX/vCenter integration. We'd like to be able to deploy virtuals like we can on xen/kvm using Koan. However, we're not going to be able to run a tool like Koan on a vCenter server, so we'd have to talk to VMware through some sort of API from another host.
Keeping this in mind, how much sense does it make to still implement this in Koan? Wouldn't Cobbler be a better place for this piece of code to live?
I'd like some input on this. :)
I'm currently working on a cobbler system deploy method that will have deployment modules. If VMware gives you an api to talk to, you could simply write a deployment module to talk to it. I would think that is the best way to go.
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There are Perl APIs, at least, for VMware.
Would it be possible to write support for vmware perl apis into libvirt? Like yum install libvirt-vmware-esx && service libvirtd restart or something? I've used the VMWare perl API before but never looked at the license on their API reference. Someone might be able to pull that off and stay out of hot water. Obviously this would be a "community" thing though.