How to properly run the VMWare plugin on debian

[Leon Bartle]

Debian famously runs 6.7.1-4 of python3-pyvmomi in their newest debian 12 buster. There are no backports.

Bareos requires pyVmomi module version 7.0.2 or greater. 

I tried installing it like this in both the root and bareos user 

pip install --force-reinstall -v "pyvmomi>=7.0.2" --break-system-packages

but to no avail.

Before I destroy my entire linux distro and bareos installation, has anyone of you an idea on how to resolve this depencency chaos? 

[Leon Bartle]

I have fixed it by doing: 

pip install --no-index --find-links /home/admin/pyvmomi/ --force-reinstall -v "pyvmomi>=7.0.2" --break-system-packages

(As you can see, I am on an airgapped system and saved the offline packagse in /home/admin/pyvmomi, you should be able to drop the part if you are online)

copy the installed files from the python3.11 packages to the python3 packages. It might only work if a specific python verison is installed because the "python3" apt package is "more managed" (?). In this case install "apt install python3.11" or the equivalent newest python verison.

cp -r /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pyVim /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/

cp -r /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pyVmomi /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/

cp -r /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/pyvmomi-8.0.2.0.1.dist-info /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/

For some reason Bareos would not eat packages which are in /python3.11/dist-packages.
I was able to see the modules everywhere. I would launch python3, python, python311 and every time I was able to successfully import them. I scanned for venvs, I created a venv for bareos itself but to no avail. Only copying the files manually would do it. Maybe this is something to look at for the vmware plugin.