[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#602807: Bug#602807: libvirt: Support esx hypervisor

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:02:36AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey.
> 
> While I hate vmware as much as possible and while I use KVM with all my
> own VMS.... the local computing centre at the university insists on
> vmware and I guess many people would prefer to use that over some
> proprietary browser plugins on their system in order to connect to the
> vcenter (or however it's called right now).
> 
> Just enabling it wouldn't make Debian or the maintainers responsible to
> provide support for upstream issues...

It would if these are RC bugs like security issues or daemon crashes.

> Do you fear that an enabled vmware driver causes stability issues with
> the other drivers supported by you guys?
> And even if, you could simply exclude such systems from being
> supported... and explicitly mention that it's just provided on an as-is
> basis.

I do understand that having it would be nice for users but I can just
repeat myself:

# Who's going to triage the bugs in the ESX driver, reproduce them,
# forward them upstream, request needed logs, backport fixes to stable
# or build security updates. 

I'm not planning to install ESX for that at home[1]. Bugs in that driver
might prevent testing migration among other things and I've not seen
anybody in this report who claimed that he even enabled the driver and
tested that it has the necessary functionality let alone willing to do
work on it.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

[1] Live 's just too short to bother with proprietary software.