Please stop disabling the VMware ESX driver

Which version are you using?

Thanks
chuck

I don't know which software you're asking about... I'm using Ubuntu Lucid with libvirt 0.7.5 to connect to an ESX 4 host.

Please see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-libvirt-discuss/2010-January/000013.html
for an answer from the Debian package maintainer. It sounds like if you volunteer to
maintain the ESX support, he may be open to enabling it by default.

won't fix per hallyn

Grr I also don't like this!.... centos has esx compiled in.. but this debian package still dont..

ubuntu 14.4
this might work for you.

git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git
cd libvirt
git checkout v1.2.2

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool autopoint xsltproc w3c-dtd-xhtml
sudo apt-get install libdevmapper-dev python-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libnl-dev libgnutls-dev libpciaccess-dev libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxen-dev uuid-dev

# I had compile error using --with-selinux so i disabled it.
./autogen.sh --system --without-selinux
# you might want to include arg: --enable-debug=yes

make
#make check
sudo make install

changing --without-vbox to --with-vbox was resolved here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1103721

Why cant we get this done for --with-esx ?

it has been a few years since:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-libvirt-discuss/2010-January/000013.html

It seems this only requires curl?

If so then this should be fine.

 status: confirmed

after a fresh install of 14.4 this seem to work.

mkdir libvirt
cd libvirt
apt-get source -d libvirt
sudo apt-get build-dep libvirt
dpkg-source -x libvirt*dsc
vi libvirt*/debian/rules
        Change "--without-esx" to "--with-esx"
cd libvirt*
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

I'm not interested in maintaining it. We're not using ESX. If this is unmaintained upstream in libvirt, I can understand why Debian would disable it. If it *is* maintained upstream, then I don't see the harm in enabling it.

I can report that steve-r-weber's instructions also work on saucy, enabling virsh to control ESXi 5.

Let's enable this in vivid at the next merge.

This bug was fixed in the package libvirt - 1.2.8-0ubuntu20

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libvirt (1.2.8-0ubuntu20) vivid; urgency=medium

  * debian/rules:
    - use --with-esx (LP: #565771)
    - specify restart-after-upgrade (LP: #1215617)
  * debian/control: add libcurl4-gnutls-dev for esx support
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:01:59 -0600