On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(a)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.
>
>
++
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.
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