[Pkg-libvirt-discuss] libvirt ESX driver in Debian

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:28:56AM -0400, Servilio Afre Puentes wrote:
> Hello Guido,
> 
> I found out that libvirt supports ESX but the Debian packages has the
> driver disabled, but I didn't find the reason for it neither in the
> changelog or the git commit message. I can make a local build of the
> packages, but I would like to know if it was disabled because of some
> issues that it was causing.
The reason is that the Debian's libvirt maintainers are busy keeping the
open source drivers (kvm, xen, lxc, openvz, VirtualBox) in shape and
nobody stepped up to provide support for the interface to the
proprietary ESX hypervisor. As soon as somebody is willing to test new
versions and fix bugs that show up in the ESX driver on a continuous
basis we're happy to enable the driver.
Cheers,
 -- Guido