Thanks Markos. I really don't have the bandwidth to work on this at the moment, any other volunteers would be most welcome. Having test cases is critical as shown with the existing driver (not working!)
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Markos Gogoulos <mgogou...@mist.io> wrote: > Hi, > > we've added vSphere support through pyvmomi on mistio branch at > https://github.com/mistio/libcloud/tree/mistio.The driver is on > https://github.com/mistio/libcloud/blob/mistio/libcloud/compute/drivers/vsphere.py > and as mentioned there code is inspired by examples of using pyvmomi on > https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples > > It doesn't contain tests, and is missing core functionality though, but > could start as a base for a quick interaction with vSphere. > > Cheers > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 PM, anthony shaw <anthony.p.s...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A user made me aware of serious issues with the vSphere driver, mainly >> that it doesn't work! >> >> There were some issues in the connection constructor, easily fixed. >> But it doesn't have any tests. Whilst trying to write a test case I >> quickly realised that pysphere, the library that it uses doesn't >> support Python 3. >> >> Looking further, this library is abandoned. I think we need to move on >> if we're going to support vSphere any more. >> >> The official VMWare package would be a better choice. >> >> https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi >> >> I don't have a VMware endpoint to test against so it'll make >> development really hard (and unreliable). >> Any volunteers for working on this? >> >> Ant >>
