Please merge in Kelven
On 2/21/13 2:18 PM, "Min Chen" <min.c...@citrix.com> wrote: >Hi there, > >Currently Cloudstack is not supporting Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 >as VM guest OS on Vmware hypervisor because we are using Vmware 4.1 web >service SDK in our nonoss build. In Vmware SDK 4.1, Windows 8 and Windows >2012 are not supported guest OS, and they are only fully supported for >ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.0 Patch 4. To support Windows 8/2012 on vmware from >Cloudstack, we need to upgrade our Vmware SDK dependency from 4.1 to 5.1. >There are several major changes that went into 5.1 SDK requiring some >code changes in Cloudstack: > > * Vmware SDK 5.1 is generated using JAX-WS RI implementation bundled >with Java 6 instead of previous Axis, so api signature is completely >changed. Simply replacing vim25.jar will break compilation of CloudStack >code. > * Vmware SDK 5.1 for java client has gotten rid of apputils.jar that >used to be in Vmware SDK 4.1, so we need to write our own wrapper layer >to handle previous apputils methods. > >This feature (targeted for 4.2.0) is to fix CloudStack code to work with >Vmware SDK 5.1 to be able to work with both Vcenter 5.1 and older version >of Vcenter. Vcenter back-compatibilty support of the new 5.1 SDK is >guaranteed by Vmware, see >http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.dsg. >doc%2Fsdk_sg_introduction.3.6.html for details. > >JIRA ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-873 > >I have already had code working in my local feature branch vim51_win8, >and done integration testing using Vcenter 5.1 and below, will merge to >master after getting approval. > >Thanks >-min >
