When the session has expired then multiple threads can race while
reestablishing it.
This race condition is not that critical as it requires a special usage
pattern to be triggered. It can only happen when an application doesn't
do API calls for quite some time (the session expires after 30 min
inactivity) and then multiple threads doing simultaneous API calls and
end up doing simultaneous calls to esxVI_EnsureSession.
Now the VMware driver doesn't depend on the ESX driver anymore.
Add a WITH_VMX option that depends on WITH_ESX and WITH_VMWARE.
Also add a libvirt_vmx.syms file.
Move some escaping functions from esx_util.c to vmx.c.
Adapt the test suite, ESX and VMware driver to the new code layout.
Instead of just reporting that a task failed get the
localized message from the TaskInfo error and include
it in the reported error message.
Implement minimal deserialization support for the
MethodFault type in order to obtain the actual fault
type.
For example, this changes the reported error message
when trying to create a volume with zero size from
Could not create volume
to
Could not create volume: InvalidArgument - A specified parameter was not correct.
Not perfect yet, but better than before.
Before this commit SessionIsActive was not used because ESX(i)
doesn't implement it. vCenter supports SessionIsActive, so use
it here, but keep the fall back mechanism for ESX(i) and GSX.
QueryVirtualDiskUuid is only available on an ESX(i) server. vCenter
returns an NotImplemented fault and a GSX server is missing the
VirtualDiskManager completely. Therefore only use QueryVirtualDiskUuid
with an ESX(i) server and fall back to path as storage volume key for
vCenter and GSX server.
VirtualDisks are .vmdk file based. Other files in a datastore
like .iso or .flp files don't have a UUID attached, fall back
to the path as key for them.
Instead of using one big traversal spec for lookup use a set of
more fine grained traversal specs that are selected based on the
actual needs of the lookup.
This gives up to 20% speedup for certain operations like domain
listing due to less HTTP(S) traffic.
Don't rely on summary.url anymore, because its value is different
between an esx:// and vpx:// connection. Use host.mountInfo.path
instead.
Don't fallback to lookup by UUID (actually lookup by absolute path)
in esxVI_LookupDatastoreByName when lookup by name fails. Add a
seperate function for this: esxVI_LookupDatastoreByAbsolutePath
Now a vpx:// connection has an explicitly specified host. This
allows to enabled several functions for a vpx:// connection
again, like host UUID, hostname, general node info, max vCPU
count, free memory, migration and defining new domains.
Lookup datacenter, compute resource, resource pool and host
system once and cache them. This simplifies the rest of the
code and reduces overall HTTP(S) traffic a bit.
esx:// and vpx:// can be mixed freely for a migration.
Ensure that migration source and destination refer to the
same vCenter. Also directly encode the resource pool and
host system object IDs into the migration URI in the prepare
function. Then directly build managed object references in
the perform function instead of re-looking up already known
information.
esxVI_WaitForTaskCompletion can take a UUID to lookup the
corresponding domain and check if the current task for it
is blocked by a question. It calls another function to do
this: esxVI_LookupAndHandleVirtualMachineQuestion looks up
the VirtualMachine and checks for a question. If there is
a question it calls esxVI_HandleVirtualMachineQuestion to
handle it.
If there was no question or it has been answered the call
to esxVI_LookupAndHandleVirtualMachineQuestion returns 0.
If any error occurred during the lookup and answering
process -1 is returned. The problem with this is, that -1
is also returned when there was no error but the question
could not be answered. So esxVI_WaitForTaskCompletion cannot
distinguish between this two situations and reports that a
question is blocking the task even when there was actually
another problem.
This inherent problem didn't surface until vSphere 4.1 when
you try to define a new domain. The driver tries to lookup
the domain that is just in the process of being registered.
There seems to be some kind of race condition and the driver
manages to issue a lookup command before the ESX server was
able to register the domain. This used to work before.
Due to the return value problem described above the driver
reported a false error message in that case.
To solve this esxVI_WaitForTaskCompletion now takes an
additional occurrence parameter that describes whether or
not to expect the domain to be existent. Also add a new
parameter to esxVI_LookupAndHandleVirtualMachineQuestion
that allows to distinguish if the call returned -1 because
of an actual error or because the question could not be
answered.
Allows listing existing pools and requesting information about them.
Alter the esxVI_ProductVersion enum in a way that allows to check for
product type by masking.
Fix invalid code generating in esx_vi_generator.py regarding deep copy
types that contain enum properties.
Add strptime and timegm to bootstrap.conf. Both are used to convert a
xsd:dateTime to calendar time.
Add a testcase of the xsd:dateTime conversion.
Also define ESX_ERROR and ESX_VI_ERROR in a central place, instead of
defining them in each source file.
Add ESX_ERROR and ESX_VI_ERROR to the msg_gen_function list in cfg.mk.
Update po/POTFILES.in accordingly.
The Python script generates the mappings based on the type descriptions
in the esx_vi_generator.input file.
This also improves the inheritance handling and allows to get rid of the
ugly, inflexible, and error prone _base/_super approach. Now every struct
that represents a SOAP type contains a _type member, that allows to
recreate C++-like dynamic dispatch for "method" calls in C.
This is actually a consequence of the reworked required parameter
checking: Unify the required parameter check into a Validate function
instead of doing it separately im the (de)serialization part.
The required parameter checking for the mapped methods parameter was
done in the (de)serialize functions before. Now it's explicitly done
in the mapped method itself.
Questions can block tasks, to handle them automatically the driver can answers
them with the default answer. The auto_answer query parameter allows to enable
this automatic question handling.
* src/esx/README: add a detailed explanation for automatic question handling
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: add automatic question handling for all task related
driver functions
* src/esx/esx_util.[ch]: add handling for the auto_answer query parameter
* src/esx/esx_vi.[ch], src/esx/esx_vi_methods.[ch], src/esx/esx_vi_types.[ch]:
add new VI API methods and types and additional helper functions for
automatic question handling
The default transport for the VI API is HTTPS. If the server redirects
from HTTPS to HTTP the driver would silently follow that redirection.
The user assumes to communicate with the server over a secure transport
but isn't.
This patch disables automatical redirection following. The driver reports
an error if the server tries to redirect.
* src/esx/esx_vi.c: refactor the call to curl_easy_perform() into a
function and do error handling there, disable automatical redirection
following for curl
* src/esx/esx_vi.h: change the type of responseCode to int
Unified function naming scheme:
- 'lookup' functions query the ESX or vCenter for information
- 'get' functions return information from a local object
* src/esx/esx_driver.c, src/esx/esx_vi.[ch]: unify function naming
A given domain XML gets converted to a VMX config, uploaded to the host
and registered as new virtual machine.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: refactor datastore related path parsing into
esxUtil_ParseDatastoreRelatedPath()
* src/esx/esx_util.[ch]: add esxUtil_ParseDatastoreRelatedPath()
* src/esx/esx_vi.[ch]: add esxVI_Context_UploadFile(), add datastores to
the traversal in esxVI_BuildFullTraversalSpecList(), add
esxVI_LookupDatastoreByName()
* src/esx/esx_vi_methods.[ch]: add esxVI_RegisterVM_Task()
* src/esx/esx_vi_types.c: make some error message more verbose
* src/esx/esx_vmx.[ch]: add esxVMX_AbsolutePathToDatastoreRelatedPath()
to convert a path into a datastore related path, add esxVMX_ParseFileName()
to convert from VMX path format to domain XML path format, extend the other
parsing function to be datastore aware, add esxVMX_FormatFileName() to
convert from domain XML path format to VMX path format, fix VMX ethernet
entry formating
* tests/esxutilstest.c: add test for esxUtil_ParseDatastoreRelatedPath()
* tests/vmx2xmldata/*: update domain XML files to use datastore related paths
* tests/xml2vmxdata/*: update domain XML files to use datastore related paths,
update VMX files to use absolute paths
Add esxVI_Occurence enum to describe expected occurence of items
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: update the use of esxVI_LookupVirtualMachineByUuid()
* src/esx/esx_vi.c: add an esxVI_Occurence parameter to
esxVI_LookupVirtualMachineByUuid() and take care if esxVI_FindByUuid()
can't find anything for a given uuid
* src/esx/esx_vi.h: add esxVI_Occurence enum
* src/esx/esx_vi_methods.c: expect null or more items to be returned
from esxVI_FindByUuid()
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: add esxSupportsLongMode() and update esxCapsInit()
* src/esx/esx_vi.[ch]: Add AnyType handling for lists
* src/esx/esx_vi_types.c: bind VI type HostCpuIdInfo
* src/esx/esx_driver.c: add esxNodeGetFreeMemory(), cache IP address
* src/esx/esx_vi.[ch]: refactor resource pool query into esxVI_GetResourcePool()
* src/esx/esx_vi_types.[ch]: bind VI type ResourcePoolResourceUsage
* src/esx/esx_vi.[ch]: convert esxVI_RemoteRequest_Execute() to a
simpler esxVI_Context_Execute() version, remove esxVI_RemoteRequest
and convert esxVI_RemoteResponse to esxVI_Response
* src/esx/esx_vi_methods.c: update and simplify callers to use
esxVI_Context_Execute() instead of esxVI_RemoteRequest_Execute()
