napalm-vmware/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Changed

• Python 3.12 is the floor (requires-python = ">=3.12"): netOrk runs every driver on 3.12, so 3.10 and 3.11 are no longer tested (NAPALM/driver-standard#6).
• The floor on napalm is 5.1: older releases import pkg_resources, which a Python 3.12 venv no longer has.
• The floor on PyYAML is 6.0.1: 6.0 has no Python 3.12 wheel and does not build there.

[0.3.0] - 2026-10-23

The first release on PyPI.

Changed

• The driver follows the NAPALM driver standard (https://git.netork.io/NAPALM/driver-standard): CI on Gitea runs ruff, mypy, the tests on Python 3.10–3.13 and at the lowest declared versions, bandit, pip-audit and a build check, and a release tag publishes to PyPI. Python 3.10 remains the floor; requires napalm-device-types 4.21.1.
• Provisioning fails, and removes the imported VM, when vSphere hands back fewer network adapters than NICs were asked for, instead of leaving a NIC unconfigured. A failed abort of the import lease is logged at debug level.

Added

• 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.

Changed

• Breaking: get_device_warnings is gone; the driver reports facts and the caller names the warnings (netOrk #1111). get_hypervisor_hosts() gives each host's connection state (None on ESXi, which cannot tell), maintenance mode, configuration issues and managing vCenter (ESXi only); get_licenses() gives the assigned licenses with their edition key as edition. Requires napalm-device-types 4.14.0; version 0.2.0.
• The guest agent is declared per guest OS (GUEST_AGENTS, napalm-device-types 3.0); VMware provisions Linux guests only and refuses any other guest_os.
• The NoCloud network-config comes from napalm-device-types (provisioning.network_config), which Proxmox uses as well.

[0.1.0] - 2026-09-24

Added

• 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.

Pending

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