VMware Debug
⚠️ Work in progress — the core (event correlation engine, MCP tools, CLI)is built and tested; README,
server.json, full reference docs, and packagingpolish are still landing. Not yet published to PyPI.
Disclaimer: Community-maintained open-source project, not affiliated with,endorsed by, or sponsored by VMware, Inc. or Broadcom Inc. "VMware" and"vSphere" are trademarks of Broadcom. Source is publicly auditable under the MITlicense.
The diagnostic brain of the VMware skill family. You bring the symptom (an error,a log dump, a slow VM); this skill runs a systematic investigation, correlatesevents from the other skills into one timeline, ranks root-cause hypotheses, andtells you what to check next. It is read-only — it never changes anything andnever executes fixes. Remediation is routed to vmware-aiops (single op) orvmware-pilot (multi-step, gated), mirroring the vmware-harden → vmware-pilotadvisor/executor split.
See skills/vmware-debug/SKILL.md for the fullmethodology, the event-envelope contract, and symptom routing.
MCP tools
| Tool | What |
|---|---|
incident_timeline |
[READ] Correlate pre-fetched events → timeline + spikes + ranked hypotheses + next-check ideas |
list_symptom_categories |
[READ] List recognised symptom categories + what to check for each |
Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)
This project uses the modern PEP 517 build system (hatchling), so there is nosetup.py by design — that is expected, not a missing file. If you cloned thesource and hit ERROR: File "setup.py" or "setup.cfg" not found ... editable mode currently requires a setuptools-based build, your pip is older than 21.3 andcannot do an editable (-e) install with a non-setuptools backend. Editablemode is a developer convenience, not needed to run the tool — do one of:
# From the source tree — a normal (non-editable) install builds a wheel:
pip install . # NOT pip install -e .
# ...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:
pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -e .
For a truly air-gapped host, build the wheels on a connected machine and copythem over — the target then needs no network:
# On a connected machine, collect this package + its dependencies as wheels:
pip wheel . -w dist # → dist/*.whl (or: uv build, for just this package)
# Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:
pip install --no-index --find-links dist vmware-debug
License
MIT.
