Hey guys, Here is my take on the issues mentioned in ticket CLOUDSTACK-615 (I will put the same details in the ticket, but discussion should take place here on the list)
The vmware jars are set to "provided" in the maven configuration. This is due to licensing/distribution restrictions of the vSphere SDK. Ee cannot distribute the vmware jar files as far as i know. This means two things. For a developer it means that he will have to obtain the required jar files from vmware and add the jar files to the compile. See the docs here : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+VMWare For a package builder it means that the vmware.jars will be used to compile the binaries, but will not be part of any resulting archive. So any version of CloudStack build with the ASF sources will have listed vmware as a dependency, but will never package it inside a war file or other archive. So anyone that wants to use CloudStack with VmWare will have to add the files manually to the systemvm and the classpath of the management server. Unless some kind soul makes packages available that have the binaries included for example by having a private fork of CloudStack with the setting changed from provided to runtime. The setting can easily be changed by whoever wants it and decides to build a package based on the vmware jars, but I would strongly suggest to leave this setting to provided. This will prevent people from thinking they can freely distribute those jar files together with CloudStack. Note that I'm no lawyer, so feel free to point out if I'm misguided in setting this up like this. Cheers, Hugo For reference, this is the Eula for the vsphere 4.1 SDK that I had to agree to when downloading the SDK: ************************** VMware(r) End User License Agreement VMware, Inc. ("VMware") provides the vSphere Web Services Software Development Kit (vSphere WS SDK) (the "Software") to you subject to the following terms and conditions. If you disagree with any of the following terms, then do not use the Software. 1. 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