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Christian Manivong 2b84ceae3a feat: VM provisioning, and reboot_host on ESXi

create_vm_from_cloud_init takes the same qcow2/raw cloud images netOrk
offers for Proxmox. ESXi can neither boot nor download them, so the
driver does both: download with checksum check and one retry, convert
with qemu-img to a streamOptimized VMDK (cached by URL), import through
a minimal OVF descriptor over NFC, pin requested MACs, grow the disk,
and attach a NoCloud seed ISO placed next to the VM's files. NoCloud
rather than guestinfo because it needs nothing in the guest; the
user-data installs open-vm-tools, which the driver declares as its
guest agent. A failure after the import removes the VM again.

Placement is a pure decision over inventory rows: a connected host
outside maintenance mode that sees the datastore and every port group,
with the resource pool and VM folder found by walking up to the
datacenter -- one path for a standalone host and for a vCenter.

Two faults vcsim surfaced and the tests now pin: a chunked upload body
next to a Content-Length is refused with 500, so the disk goes up as a
sized file object that also reports lease progress; and a device edit
replaces the device as sent, so disk and NIC edits start from the live
objects, backing included (vcsim panicked on a disk without one).

destroy_vm, get_vm_status, get_network_targets (port groups with their
fixed VLAN) and get_image_storages complete the contract.

reboot_host on ESXi uses RebootHost_Task and refuses outside
maintenance mode: force=True would cut power to running VMs.

Tested against vcsim in ESXi and vCenter mode, end to end.

2026-09-24 10:00:33 +02:00

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VM provisioning (create_vm_from_cloud_init, destroy_vm, get_vm_status, get_network_targets, get_image_storages) from qcow2/raw cloud images: converted with qemu-img, imported over OVF/NFC, configured by cloud-init from a NoCloud seed ISO. Tested against vcsim.
reboot_host on ESXi, refused outside maintenance mode.
Declares open-vm-tools as the guest agent for provisioned VMs.

[0.1.0] - 2026-09-24

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vmware_esxi and vmware_vcenter drivers (hypervisor role) over the vSphere API: facts, interfaces, LLDP/CDP, environment, VMs, VM config, power actions, snapshots, datastores, port groups and raw device warnings.
tools/harvest.py and tools/sanitize.py to capture fixtures from real hosts.

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Validation against real ESXi and vCenter installations; tested against vcsim only.

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