Hello Ray! I think you should be able to use that plugin.
vSphere stand for the protocol to talk to the ESXi The paid product is vCentre. I think the vSphere agent can manage both just fine. Can you check this web page to see if apply? http://dor.ky/using-vmware-vsphereesxi-as-a-provider-for-vagrant/ Thanks Alvaro. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Ray Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alvaro, apologies for the late response. > > The issue with vagrant-vsphere is that it doesn't support unmanaged ESX > servers. We do not have vCenter at my company but we have many licensed and > unlicensed ESX servers to manage our VMs. > > I've been recently playing with vagrant-vsphere and vagrant-esx plugins but > having a lot of trouble. We use Windows VMs on ESX 6.0 and using the > vagrant-esx plugin, I'm having many SSH (and random commandline) issues. > Using mobassh at the moment to ssh to windows. > > Any advice? > > Thanks, > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 11:59:01 PM UTC-4, Alvaro Miranda > Aguilera wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> The Vagrant-vsphere doesn't require any box file , it will clone a VM >> or template in the vSphere server >> >> I will suggest go to the github repo of the plugin, and read the >> instructions. >> >> Thanks >> Alvaro. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Ray Bond <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have a Windows 7 64bit VM on an ESXi / vSphere server. >> > >> > I exported the VM using ovftool to Windows7.ova. >> > >> > Is it possible to use vagrant / packer to convert the OVA file to a BOX >> > file >> > that is compatible with the vagrant-vsphere plugin? >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > R >> > >> > -- >> > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> > violation >> > of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. >> > >> > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues >> > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Vagrant" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/2c55bd09-2701-4633-95c0-7380fc5e30c6%40googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation > of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/99f5fa16-4f42-4fb9-9f53-c670c64e6cd7%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAHqq0exbmsG_jZJv8Z_p4FiBFXnNTRbkTzCbZVFh7g1vfKH%3DCA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
