It has a web interface, but that's about all I can say. It isn't worth much. I believe you can view and restart machines, but I don't believe it has support to create new machines--at least not yet. That could also change in the future.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Foreman wrote: >> I've been struggling with this myself. VMware is not my first choice >> of virtualization technology, but my company chose VMware. We are >> running an ESX cluster. Based on the clustering and management apps I >> can't say that I blame them, but the current architecture of the VC >> seems to make interoperating with Linux (from a management >> perspective) problematic to say the least. VMware has stated publicly >> that they plan to rectify this in the near future, but so far I >> haven't seen anything: >> http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid94_gci1336091,00.html >> >> It seems to me that until VMWare provides the tool set to interact >> with the VC from a linux client managing virtual guests on an ESX >> cluster will be rather difficult. >> > > Are web services interacting with VirtualCenter possible? If so, that > may be the answer? > > >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Glenn Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> Excellent summary. Yes, if this is the odd one out and you have to >>>> run >>>> koan /from/ the ESX server in this case that's acceptable. Or we could >>>> just add parameters to koan to supply those parameters to allow that to >>>> run from koan. >>>> >>> Hrm, I'm not sure how well this would play in a ESX cluster environment. If >>> you >>> had a single ESX host running several VM's this would be acceptable, but in >>> a >>> cluster VC run's everything and the ESX servers just act as nodes. >>> >>> Maybe something separate from Koan that could reside on the VC console, the >>> would >>> query Cobbler, and then create the VM, populate Cobbler with a MAC? I know >>> VC has >>> a pretty extensive API .. >>> >>> This is all from a ESX/VMWare background BTW, I have very little experience >>> with >>> Koan ;-) >>> >>> -- >>> glenn >>> terremark worldwide >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cobbler mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
