Re: [libvirt] Question about supporting other hypervisor

[Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia jp fujitsu com>]

Hi, Daniel

I am looking around the wbemexec code on openpegasus.
and count its code size.(seems small than I expected)
Then I raised the question.

Of course, Dan Smith's suggestion is very helpful advice.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI


Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:16:14PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> > Hi, Daniel and all
> > 
> > Thank you for various comments.
> > These comments are very helpful for me.
> > 
> > Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > 
> > >   Atsushi do you know if by default VMWare ESX and Hyper-V allow CIM
> > > XML access, or if some 'additional' software need to be installed to
> > > get this to work ? Also if you have feedback about the quality of the
> > > client CIM APIs implemented (completeness, interoperability ...) that's
> > > good to know too,
> > 
> > For VMware, there has CIM tool.
> > http://www.vmware.com/download/sdk/
> > 
> > For Hyper-V, there is a WMI.
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa490398.aspx
> > 
> > By the way,
> > I am not sure the quality of these CIM I/F implementation.
> > But If there are have a possiblity, I will consider to check it.
> 
>   Well as Dan Smith pointed out this may get really tedious, especially
> the asynchronous part of CIM processing.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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