[libvirt] VMware: Map vpx:// to dcPath

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:55:03PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2015-09-07 22:04 GMT+02:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:29:22PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >> I think the datacenter path could be exposed
> >> as part of the domain XML as
> >> <vmware:datacenterpath>/path/to/dc</vmware:datacenterpath> similar to
> >> the way <qemu:commandline> works. But it would be ignored on parsing.
> >>
> >> Would that work for you? If yes, I can propose a patch that does this.
> >
> > Absolutely this would be brilliant.
> 
> Okay, here's patch that does this. It's only tested using the test
> suite, as I don't have an ESX setup at hand at the moment. Do you have
> the possibility to test this properly?

> From 489e2d5dd29dd4b11716897ca52b14f6666ec141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:00:47 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] vmx: Expose datacenter path in domain XML

If you're happy with this patch, I'd like to push it to the libvirt
repo.  I didn't see any later version on the list.  Let me know if
this is the final version.

Also I have opened a BZ for the problem so the fix can be included in
RHEL 7.3:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263574

Rich.

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