Bug 759061
| Summary: | Add support for ESXi 5 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Daniel Veillard <veillard> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | acathrow, ajia, bsarathy, corey, cpelland, crobinso, dallan, mark+redhat, msvoboda, mzhan, pm-eus, rjones, rwu, tzheng, veillard, whuang, xen-maint, yupzhang, zpeng |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.2 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Support for VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5 installations has been added.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-01-17 10:24:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 758231 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-12-01 11:07:33 UTC
Test this issue with:
VMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 469512
libvirt-python-0.9.4-23.el6_2.2.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.9.4-23.el6_2.2.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.2.x86_64
Steps:
1.# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh # list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------
- esx5.0-rhel5.7-i386 shut off
- esx5.0-rhel5.7-x86_64 shut off
- esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386 shut off
2.Start a guest
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 start esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Domain esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386 started
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 list
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Id Name State
----------------------------------
5 esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386 running
3.Dumpxml of guest.
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 dumpxml esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
<domain type='vmware' id='5'>
<name>esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386</name>
<uuid>564d3e09-815e-4a09-33e4-27a1ed42adb2</uuid>
<memory>2097152</memory>
<currentMemory>2097152</currentMemory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
</os>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='[datastore1] esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386/esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386-000001.vmdk'/>
<target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
...
4.Define a guest.
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 define esxi5.xml
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Domain test5.0 defined from esxi5.xml
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 list --all
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Id Name State
----------------------------------
5 esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386 running
- test5.0 shut off
5.Undefine a guest.
# virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 undefine test5.0
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Domain test5.0 has been undefined
6.Destroy a guest.
virsh -c esx://10.66.6.211/?no_verify=1 destroy esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386
Enter username for 10.66.6.211 [root]:
Enter root's password for 10.66.6.211:
Domain esx5.0-rhel6.2-i386 destroyed
It works well for me.
Verified the bug with: VMware ESXi Version 5.0.0 Build 469512 libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64 The steps are the same with comment 6. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0013.html
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New Contents:
Support for VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5 installations has been added.
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