Feature changed by: James Tan (jatan11) Feature #311130, revision 3 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESX(i) Servers Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. + Discussion: + #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) + libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend + something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web + application)? + [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] + http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

Feature changed by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Feature #311130, revision 5 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESX(i) Servers Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. Discussion: #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web application)? [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ #2: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-24 19:41:12) (reply to #1) Actually my current working prototype using more rude and simple approach of sending management commands and creating vmx configs via ssh in the background. I have to look more deeply on libvirt capabilities. Thanks for a great tip, James ! + #3: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2011-01-24 21:19:16) + It would be great to have a libvirt backend for Vagrant. :) + http://vagrantup.com/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

Feature changed by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Feature #311130, revision 8 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESX(i) Servers - Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed + Hackweek VI: Done Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. Discussion: #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web application)? [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ #2: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-24 19:41:12) (reply to #1) Actually my current working prototype using more rude and simple approach of sending management commands and creating vmx configs via ssh in the background. I have to look more deeply on libvirt capabilities. Thanks for a great tip, James ! #3: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2011-01-24 21:19:16) It would be great to have a libvirt backend for Vagrant. :) http://vagrantup.com/ #4: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-31 11:16:13) I composed small CLI ruby app on top of libvirt which covers basic ESX management functionality. If you want to check it out, please grab it on http://gitorious.org/suseviclient/ Libvirt package with enabled esx driver available in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/ repo. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

Feature changed by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Feature #311130, revision 10 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESXi Servers Hackweek VI: Done Priority Requester: Important Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. Discussion: #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web application)? [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ #2: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-24 19:41:12) (reply to #1) Actually my current working prototype using more rude and simple approach of sending management commands and creating vmx configs via ssh in the background. I have to look more deeply on libvirt capabilities. Thanks for a great tip, James ! #3: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2011-01-24 21:19:16) It would be great to have a libvirt backend for Vagrant. :) http://vagrantup.com/ #4: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-31 11:16:13) I composed small CLI ruby app on top of libvirt which covers basic ESX management functionality. If you want to check it out, please grab it on http://gitorious.org/suseviclient/ Libvirt package with enabled esx driver available in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/ repo. + #5: Yury Tsarev (xnull) (2011-09-27 22:32:37) + After attempt to create the client with ruby-libvirt on Hackweek 6, I + decided to switch to shell scipting to complete this task. This allowed + me to surpass libvirt bugs/limitations in scope of working with vSphere + API. I developed the new version of client in-house, adding new + functionalities by team members requests. The result is a tool which + has some good number of features especially if you are intend to deploy + appliances from SUSE Studio. + On this Hackweek (7) I decided to extend client functionality + implementing virtual switch/network control, extend VM provisioning + with autoyast support, fix some existing glitches, improve + documentation and , of course, publish the sources outside. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

Feature changed by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Feature #311130, revision 12 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESXi Servers Hackweek VI: Done Priority Requester: Important - Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed + Hackweek VII: Implementation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Current version is hosted on https://github.com/ytsarev/suseviclient Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. Discussion: #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web application)? [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ #2: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-24 19:41:12) (reply to #1) Actually my current working prototype using more rude and simple approach of sending management commands and creating vmx configs via ssh in the background. I have to look more deeply on libvirt capabilities. Thanks for a great tip, James ! #3: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2011-01-24 21:19:16) It would be great to have a libvirt backend for Vagrant. :) http://vagrantup.com/ #4: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-31 11:16:13) I composed small CLI ruby app on top of libvirt which covers basic ESX management functionality. If you want to check it out, please grab it on http://gitorious.org/suseviclient/ Libvirt package with enabled esx driver available in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/ repo. #5: Yury Tsarev (xnull) (2011-09-27 22:32:37) After attempt to create the client with ruby-libvirt on Hackweek 6, I decided to switch to shell scipting to complete this task. This allowed me to surpass libvirt bugs/limitations in scope of working with vSphere API. I developed the new version of client in-house, adding new functionalities by team members requests. The result is a tool which has some good number of features especially if you are intend to deploy appliances from SUSE Studio. On this Hackweek (7) I decided to extend client functionality implementing virtual switch/network control, extend VM provisioning with autoyast support, fix some existing glitches, improve documentation and , of course, publish the sources outside. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

Feature changed by: Andrew Finnell (duelingcoders) Feature #311130, revision 14 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESXi Servers Hackweek VI: Done Priority Requester: Important Hackweek VII: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Developer: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Current version is hosted on https://github.com/ytsarev/suseviclient Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. + Business case (Partner benefit): + openSUSE.org: Removes the need for an installation of Microsoft Windows + (R) to manage VMware ESXi servers. Discussion: #1: James Tan (jatan11) (2011-01-24 19:21:42) libvirt [1] can already talk to ESX. So you probably want to extend something like virt-manager [2] (desktop application) or ovirt [3] (web application)? [1] http://libvirt.org/ (http://libvirt.org/) [2] http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ #2: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-24 19:41:12) (reply to #1) Actually my current working prototype using more rude and simple approach of sending management commands and creating vmx configs via ssh in the background. I have to look more deeply on libvirt capabilities. Thanks for a great tip, James ! #3: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2011-01-24 21:19:16) It would be great to have a libvirt backend for Vagrant. :) http://vagrantup.com/ #4: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) (2011-01-31 11:16:13) I composed small CLI ruby app on top of libvirt which covers basic ESX management functionality. If you want to check it out, please grab it on http://gitorious.org/suseviclient/ Libvirt package with enabled esx driver available in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/ repo. #5: Yury Tsarev (xnull) (2011-09-27 22:32:37) After attempt to create the client with ruby-libvirt on Hackweek 6, I decided to switch to shell scipting to complete this task. This allowed me to surpass libvirt bugs/limitations in scope of working with vSphere API. I developed the new version of client in-house, adding new functionalities by team members requests. The result is a tool which has some good number of features especially if you are intend to deploy appliances from SUSE Studio. On this Hackweek (7) I decided to extend client functionality implementing virtual switch/network control, extend VM provisioning with autoyast support, fix some existing glitches, improve documentation and , of course, publish the sources outside. #6: Yury Tsarev (xnull) (2011-10-06 19:31:04) Implemented during Hackweek 7: -virtual network management -unattended installation with autoyast - existing vm modifications -web interface Marking as 'done' for Hackweek 7 project, will continue to improve outside of the hackweek. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130