libvirt users - May 2015 - libvirt and VMWare Workstation Shared Server mode (of GSX history)

Hi everyone,

I searched previous postings and I couldn't find a definitive answer on 
this..

I run a small lab of RHEL/Centos Based servers on which there's VMWare 
Workstation running on a non-standard port but still manageable by tools 
like VMrun (and the Fusion of Workstation GUI, of course).

I'm trying to use virsh with this setup and getting the following error 
from both RHEL6 and RHEL7:

$ virsh -c esx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1
Enter user1's password for server1:
error: internal error Expecting product 'gsx' or 'esx' or
'embeddedEsx' or 'vpx' but found 'ws'
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

I tried 'gsx' as a type too but to no avail.
The mode that I'm using is called by vmware a 'ws-shared' mode..:

$ /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws-shared -h https://localhost:943/sdk -u user1
listRegisteredVM
Host password:
Total registered VMs: 35
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node1/VCS4.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node2/VCS4.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node3/VCS4.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node4/VCS4.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node1/VCS5.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node2/VCS5.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node3/VCS5.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node4/VCS5.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] DOS622/dos.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris8/solaris8.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris10/solaris10.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node1/VCS6.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node2/VCS6.vmx
[ha-datacenter/standard] MacOSX_107/Mac_OS_X_Lion.vmx
[...]

Would that be something easy to hack/add for the libvirt versions I'm 
using? (RHEL6/7) even if this means recompiling some src.rpms..

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

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2015-05-21 22:53 GMT+02:00  <vincent@cojot.name>:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I searched previous postings and I couldn't find a definitive answer on
> this..
>
> I run a small lab of RHEL/Centos Based servers on which there's VMWare
> Workstation running on a non-standard port but still manageable by tools
> like VMrun (and the Fusion of Workstation GUI, of course).
>
> I'm trying to use virsh with this setup and getting the following error
from
> both RHEL6 and RHEL7:
>
> $ virsh -c esx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1
> Enter user1's password for server1:
> error: internal error Expecting product 'gsx' or 'esx' or
'embeddedEsx' or
> 'vpx' but found 'ws'
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>
> I tried 'gsx' as a type too but to no avail.
> The mode that I'm using is called by vmware a 'ws-shared'
mode..:
>
> $ /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws-shared -h https://localhost:943/sdk -u user1
> listRegisteredVM
> Host password:
> Total registered VMs: 35
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node1/VCS4.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node2/VCS4.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node3/VCS4.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node4/VCS4.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node1/VCS5.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node2/VCS5.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node3/VCS5.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node4/VCS5.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] DOS622/dos.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris8/solaris8.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] Solaris10/solaris10.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node1/VCS6.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS60_node2/VCS6.vmx
> [ha-datacenter/standard] MacOSX_107/Mac_OS_X_Lion.vmx
> [...]
>
> Would that be something easy to hack/add for the libvirt versions I'm
using?
> (RHEL6/7) even if this means recompiling some src.rpms..
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
Here's a quick hack you can test. It should make the ESX driver treat
a VMware Workstation as VMware GSX server. This should work then:

virsh -c gsx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1

-- 
Matthias Bolte
http://photron.blogspot.com

On Sun, 31 May 2015, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Here's a quick hack you can test. It should make the ESX driver treat
> a VMware Workstation as VMware GSX server. This should work then:
>
> virsh -c gsx://user1@server1:943/?no_verify=1
>
> -- 
> Matthias Bolte
> http://photron.blogspot.com
Hi Matthias,

Thanks for the tip. I'll get the src.rpm and add the patch to see if/how 
it works. For the record, el6.6 uses this libvirt version: 
libvirt-0.10.2-46.el6_6.6 (latest).
Kind regards,
Vincent