Comment 6 for bug 758810

Sateesh. I already did
On Apr 12, 2011 4:55 PM, "Sateesh" <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Thierry: Yes, without this fix for this bug the VMware support is braken.
The nova-compute service wouldn't be able to talk to VMware ESX server.
> I will create a branch for the fix and will propose it for merge into
trunk.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758810
>
> Title:
> VMwareAPIConnection class should inherit ComputeDriver class
>
> Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Due to the fixes committed to nova trunk for the bugs 661214 and
> 661260 VMwareAPIConnection class should be modified to inherit from
> driver.ComputeDriver class in a similar manner to the changes done to
> XenAPIConnection class.
>
> Just before the bug fixes for 661214 & 661260 went in the branch
> vmware-vsphere-support has gone in which has resulted in this
> inconsistency.
>
> Fix would be to incorporate the changes (inherit the connection class
> from driver.ComputeDriver) to VMwareAPIConnection class as well in
> nova/virt/vmwareapi_conn.py. Without these changes vmwareapi module
> cannot be loaded and nova can't support VMware ESX/vSphere hypervisor.