+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #624673 +++ Description of problem: Existing fence_vmware uses 3rd party RPM dependency from VMware (VMware Perl API). libvirt VMware/ESX driver implemented a SOAP method to connect to Virtual Center. libvirt usage is fairly different than what we want for a general fence agent, so it's been recommended by libvirt team that we lift their SOAP code (just the parts of it that we need for the fence agent) and use it to rework the fence_vmware agent. --- Additional comment from rohara on 2010-08-30 14:13:27 EDT --- Doing this will allow us to remove fence_vmware_helper.pl and fence_vware can be exclusively Python code. This will likely create a dependency on a SOAP module to be pulled into Pyton, such as SOAPy. The vmware web site has a "VMware Infrastructure SDK Programming Guide" that seems helpful, too. Basic power on/off operations are PowerOnVM_Task and PowerOffVM_Task. Also look at libvirt, which uses a C API but has some python code to generate the SOAP code. This is more than we need for fence_vmware, but might be a handy reference.
This has been in fedora for a while. Missed the BZ at release time.