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api to open a network connection and to disable it

SumitBisht — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:19:22 GMT

Hi,

Please provide me the API to open a network connection and to disable it. Or is it possible to do the same??

Thanks

Plugin name and description do not show correctly within Plug-in Manager Window

xsigo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:28:54 GMT

sucessfully registered my plug in to vsphere; however, plugin name, vender and description do not show correctly.

name become app, vender is empty and desciption is app

here is my scriptConfig

<scriptConfiguration version="4.0">
<key>com.xsigo.xmsweb.app</key>
<description>Xsigo Virtual I/O Management System Plug-in</description>
<name>Xsigo Virtual I/O Management Plug-in</name>
<vendor>Xsigo, Inc.</vendor>
<view parent="Inventory.Global">
<url>https://null/xms/jsf/config/overview.jsf</url>
<icon>https://null/xms/img/xgicon.png</icon>
<title locale="en">Virtual I/O</title>
</view>
<view parent="Inventory.Datacenter">
<url>https://null/xms/jsf/config/AllServers.jsf</url>
<title locale="en">Virtual I/O</title>
</view>
<view parent="Inventory.HostSystem">
<url>https://null/xms/jsf/config/AllServerProfiles.jsf</url>
<title locale="en">Virtual I/O</title>
</view>
</scriptConfiguration>

Please help.

HowTo: Installing vSphere SDK for Perl on OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)

akutz — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:37:42 GMT

I thought some of you may find this useful. I document how to install the vSphere SDK for Perl on a OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) system at http://akutz.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/installing-vsphere-sdk-for-perl-on-os-x-10-6-2-snow-leopard/

C - gSOAP : How to get Virtual Machine list using TraversalSpec objects and RetrieveProperties method ??

netix_evg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:44:59 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to list all VMs for a particular ESX server. I have written C code similare to "VI Perl SDK" method "Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'VirtualMachine');" (method in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm module......... attaching VIComman.pm with this thread) but code seems to be not working ... means not giving me expected reference to VirtualMachine Objects.

Following is the code snip that I am using :

...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

enum xsd__boolean skip = xsd__boolean__false_;
enum xsd__boolean all = xsd__boolean__true_;

resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name = "resourcePoolTraversalSpec";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->type = "ResourcePool";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->path = "resourcePool";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(2 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name = "resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->type = "ResourcePool";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->path = "vm";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;

computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name = "computeResourceRpTraversalSpec";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->type = "ComputeResource";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->path = "resourcePool";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(2 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name = "computeResourceHostTraversalSpec";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->type = "ComputeResource";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->path = "host";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;

datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name = "datacenterHostTraversalSpec";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->type = "Datacenter";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->path = "hostFolder";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name = "datacenterVmTraversalSpec";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->type = "Datacenter";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->path = "vmFolder";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

hostVmTraversalSpec->name = "hostVmTraversalSpec";
hostVmTraversalSpec->type = "HostSystem";
hostVmTraversalSpec->path = "vm";
hostVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

folderTraversalSpec->name = "folderTraversalSpec";
folderTraversalSpec->type = "Folder";
folderTraversalSpec->path = "childEntity";
folderTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(7 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].name = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].dynamicType = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].dynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].name = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].dynamicType = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].dynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].name = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].dynamicType = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].dynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].name = hostVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].dynamicType = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].__sizedynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].dynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].skip = &skip;
objSpec[0].obj = sc->rootFolder;
objSpec[0].selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(8 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));

objSpec[0].selectSet[0].name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[1].name = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].dynamicType = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[2].name = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].dynamicType = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].dynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[3].name = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].dynamicType = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].dynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[4].name = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].dynamicType = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].dynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[5].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[6].name = hostVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].dynamicType = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].__sizedynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].dynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[7].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

proSpec[0].type = "VirtualMachine";
proSpec[0].all = &all;

proFiltSpec[0].objectSet = objSpec;
proFiltSpec[0].__sizeobjectSet = MAX_OBJECT_SPEC;
proFiltSpec[0].propSet = proSpec;
proFiltSpec[0].__sizepropSet = MAX_PROPERTY_SPEC;

retProp._USCOREthis = sc->propertyCollector;
retProp.__sizespecSet = MAX_PROPERTY_FILTER_SPEC;
retProp.specSet = proFiltSpec;

if (SOAP_OK != soap_call___ns2__RetrieveProperties(soap, EndPoint, "", &retProp, &retPropResp))
{
if (soap->error) soap_print_fault(soap, stderr);
free(proFiltSpec);
free(objSpec);
free(proSpec);
return FALSE;
}

if (!retPropResp.returnval)
{
fprintf(stderr," ****** No Object found ********\n");
free(proFiltSpec);
free(objSpec);
free(proSpec);
return FALSE;
}
...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Could anyone tell me what's wrong with the above code ??

Any body having the C code to find the list of VMs running on the Particular ESX ??

Does anyone have java or C# code similare to above C code snip ???

How do I find the VixVolumeInfo.inGuestMountPoints for volumes that are mounted on a clean NTSF folder

red0mark — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:31 GMT

I have a vm guest with 2 disks… the boot disk is mounted at C: but the second disk it mounted on a founder in the C: file system.

E.g.
C:\drivef is a mount point for my second disk.

The VixVolumeInfo for the inGuestMountPoints is null so is there another way I can determine that the mound point is C:\drivef

Thanks,
-Ron

How to use the VmProvisioningChecker?

manfred9999 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:37:12 GMT

Hello

I like to retrieve the possible migration destinations of a Virtual Machine. Can I use the VmProvisioningChecker.CheckMigrate_Task?

How can I implement it and what kind of result should it return? I did run a test and it returns a moref of type task. I was not able to get the object of this moref.

Can I also use it on ESX 3.5 / 3.0 Systems and Virtualcenter 2.x?

A sample would be great.

Regards

Manfred

Authentication timed out?

LarsOeschey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to snapshot some VM's via vcbmounter.exe from a perl script. The first backup works fine, but on the second I got a authentication failure. I use this code in the beginning of the script for authentication (how do code tags work here?):

eval {Vim::login(
service_url => $service_url,
user_name => $username,
password => $password);
};
if ($@) {
# error
print LOG $@ . "\n";
}

This seems to work, since the first VM gets backup'ed. It takes about 1:15h, since in the first run I got an error about it not being able two write back the backup date to a custom field, I added exactly the same authentication into the loop after the backup. So the login should be valid when the next one starts. However I do get a

SOAP Fault:

Fault string: Die Sitzung wurde nicht authentifiziert.
Fault detail: NotAuthenticatedFault

(the first one translates into "session not authenticated")

Before I had added the additional authenication into the loop, I just would get a "Unable to find VM name" from this within the loop:

my $vm = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'VirtualMachine',
filter => {"config.name" => $_});
unless ($vm) {
print "Unable to find VM: \"$_\"!\n";
exit 1
}

So it seems the authentication works fine for the first backup, and then times out. But why does the same authentication code from the start of the script not work again? How would I reauthenticate?

I've attached the script if anyone wants to take a look...

Lars

VMRunProgramInGuest (Perl version) returns unknown error in multithreads environment

KudoC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:52:47 GMT

Hi,

I want to develope a automation test for VMWare Workstation.
I have two thread which open two diffent VMs and run command.
After some simple testing, I find find that once a thread finish its command's job, it will cause another thread be terminate, and return error code = 1 (Unknown error).
I guess that there might be something wrong of VMware::Vix::API::Job::Wait for multi-thread environment.
Are there anyone who have the same experience? And please tell me what should I do.

The attachment is my test sample code.
You maybe see "Thread 2 terminated abnormally: VMRunProgramInGuest() failed, 1 Unknown error", when you run this test with two VMs logining on and exit one of calculator program.

Thanks a lot.

ps.
1. My test is implemented by Perl, including perl threads.
2. My environment is VMWare Workstation 6.5.3-185404 with VIX API v.1.8.1

Error "Insufficient permissions in host operating system" when an Administrator on a folder try to power on a VM with VIX API

levinpeng — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:32:53 GMT

I have granted an user as an Administrator on the specified folder, her tried to power on a VM with calling VIX API but get the below error:
'Insufficient permissions in host operating system'.

What permission does the user need if he want to power on/off a VM with invoking VIX API?

Create VM instance on Cluster

schue — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:53:47 GMT

Hi,

I want to create virtual machines on Cluster, not on a specified host.

My Problem is that the function VMCreate need an type "resourcePool" and I don't know how to create a resourcePool from a ClusterComputeResource.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

Henning

Retrieving vNIC packetsRx and packetsTx possible on VSphere 4.0?

JonoT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:40 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to write a simple utility which can retrieve the packetsRx and packetsTx of each VM running in a Datacenter.

Looking at the sample performance.pl script, it seems that it only returns a single metric called "Usage", which is not reliable.

Essentially, I'd like to retrieve a counter that shows the number of bytes transmitted and the number of bytes received rather than a current snapshot of what the utilisation is.

Thoughts anyone?

VMware Server 2.0 Backups (VIX 1.6.2 only)

fixitchris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:52:17 GMT

Vix_Virtuozo_Suite enables domain-wide cold and hot backups of your guests. Windows and Linux (SAMBA required) host OSs are supported.

Attached is the current build of Vix_Virtuozo_Suite x86. The installer will install a Windows Service and provide GUI to configure the service options.

All feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Service GUI

Guest GUI

Live Backup Status

Subscribe to this thread's email notification to receive updates on bug fixes.
Troubleshooting notes:

VIX API 1.6 is required for this software to function.
VIX_Virtuozo_Service Windows Service must log on as a user with permission to create a custom Event Log as well as have access to protected shares (CIFS) defined throughout the configuration of each host and guest.
SAMBA is required for VMware hosts running Linux.

Available Versions:
Vix_Virtuozo_Suite_061609 - Stable release for VIX 1.6.2. Backs up one host at a time.
Vix_Virtuozo_Suite_092509 - Stable release for VIX 1.6.2. Backs up one host at a time. (Recommended Install)

VIX 1.7 is NOT stable to work with Server 2.0!

Script VMWare Server 2.0 Configuration

apmm — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:49:04 GMT

Hi All.

I'm currently in the process of scripting the install of VMWare server. Does anyone know if there is a way to script the VM shell settings? eg: Amount of RAM, number of processors etc.

I've had a look around the net and haven't been able to find anything.

Thanks

Anthony

Pb stopping a guest using vmrun

jylenhof — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:39 GMT

Hi,

I've installed VMware-VIX-1.7.0-186713.x86_64.bundle on a RHEL 5.4 x86-64 Linux box.

I've managed to use vmrun to list all VMs :

vmrun -T vc -h https://hereismyadressip/sdk -u jylenhof -p hereismypassword list
Total running VMs: 101
s0184:storage1 S0127/S0127.vmx
VmVolume3 S0136 - Test Linux/S0136 - Test Linux.vmx
<snip>

VMware_Autonome_02 SV0188 - Serveur de Chat/SV0188 - Serveur de Chat.vmx
VMware_Autonome_02 SMTP2 - Relais Mail/SMTP2 - Relais Mail.vmx

But when I try to use it to stop a VM, the status reported is not the real one (my guest is powered on) :

~~root@sv0220 fence_vmware~~# vmrun -T vc -h https://hereismyipaddress/sdk -u jylenhof -p hereismypassword stop "VmVolume1 sv0221 - Maquette FTP/sv0221 - Maquette FTP.vmx"
Error: The virtual machine is not powered on: VmVolume1 sv0221 - Maquette FTP/sv0221 - Maquette FTP.vmx
~~root@sv0220 fence_vmware~~#

Nothing is written on the vcenter side.

And when I try to start this already started vm, it says that it cannot connect to the virtual machine...

~~root@sv0220 fence_vmware~~# vmrun -T vc -h https://hereismyipaddress/sdk -u jylenhof -p hereismypassword start "VmVolume1 sv0221 - Maquette FTP/sv0221 - Maquette FTP.vmx"
Error: Cannot connect to the virtual machine
~~root@sv0220 fence_vmware~~#

On the vcenter side, I've this message :

XXX VirtualMachine.powerOn.label not found XXX
sv0221 - Maquette FTP
The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state Powered on).
BANQUE-ACCORD\jylenhofV1000.banque-accord.com
19/11/2009 17:03:38

Please advice what's wrong with my commands or if there's something wrong anywhere else ? (I can provide more information if asked precisely)

Regards,

RemoteInstall Test Framework based on VIX API

dblock — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:20:10 GMT

I see a lot of people trying to automate test tasks with Vix API. Well, we were too That's how I ended up writing VMWareTasks.

Today I am happy to announce the open sourcing of RemoteInstall test framework, entirely based on VMWare. Targeted to testing installers originally, it has grown in a nice test framework. It is:

Designed for continuous integration with CruiseControl and CruiseControl.NET.
Supports VMWare Professional 6.5, VMWare Server 2.0 and Virtual Infrastructure (ESX, etc.) with VMWare VIX 1.7.0+.
Supports running multiple installers on multiple virtual machines with multiple snapshots.
Command line, configuration file driven execution.
XML and HTML logging with pretty xsl-tranformed output including custom merged results.
Capable of executing user-defined command-line, virtual machine and virtual machine snapshot tasks.
Capable of combining results from multiple runs and user-defined tasks.
Automatically collects installation logs clickable in the results summary.
Copies user-defined files and folders from/to the virtual machine.
Supports horizontal scaling with parallel execution against multiple Virtual Machine hosts.
Itegrates and remotes unit tests from unit test frameworks, including NUnit and JUnit.
Supports some distributed test scenarios with multiple virtual machines and snapshots.

Check it out. Maybe you don't need to write that tool after-all

http://remoteinstall.codeplex.com/

MOB equivalent to Vim::find_entity_views?

skayser — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:57:48 GMT

Greetings,

i have started using the Managed Object Browser on a vCenter 4 installation to explore the object structure of the API, but i haven't been able to find VM objects so far. Could someone kindly point me to where i can find / query VM instances in the MOB. Similar to what i would do via Vim::find_entity_views.

Thanks

Sebastian

Any API to control VMware WorkStation?

Nasu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:24:54 GMT

I am currently using VIX API to open a VM and run our testing tool on the VM but is there any way to control VMware Workstation? I am thinking of things like maximizing it (which I have tried via VBScript without success), showing it in full screen mode etc.

SessionIsActive() is not implemented in vSphere ESX 4.0

luger_lee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:18:06 GMT

Hi,

I'm using the vSphere™ SDK for Perl to make a script for monitoring performance of an ESX 4.0 host.

First, I use Vim::login() to login and save the session by Vim::save_session().

From second executing, instead of Vim::login(), I use Vim::load_session() to connect to the ESX 4.0 host and SessionIsActive() to check whether or not the session is expired. But when calling SessionIsActive(), I got 'Throw vmodl.fault.NotImplemented' form hostd.log.

What's wrong with my idea ?

Thanks in advance.

Proper XML for config and extension...

mikes113 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:13:21 GMT

Going through all of the documentation the one thing that seems incredibly lacking is configuration of the necessary XML files. I have a test plugin that I have done in C#, when I copy the DLL's to the plugins path it shows up in vSphere and works as expected. Now what I want to do is make it so that I can have a "Download and Install" link inside the download manager through vCenter.

I have managed to get an extension added to vCenter and it will show up in the plugins list, but how do I get the required files (I already have created an installer for them) down to the client from vCenter? This would be the same kind of behavior as the enterprise converter, which I have tried to dig into, but I can't find the appropriate files.

Sorry if this is a bit of a newb type question, but I am not seeing much documentation on this anywhere, and wherever it does exist, it's not very good to explain the different options.

Extend VM Creation

mikes113 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:38 GMT

Basically I would like to create a plugin that hides the "New Virtual Machine" wizard and implements a custom wizard for VM creation that is stripped down and modified so that we can create new VM's and automatically allocate resources and choose storage locations, among other things, based on a few basic inputs in the wizard. This plugin would be a .Net plugin.

Based on the document here however http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10859 it appears adding to the inventory is not allowed so creating this kind of plugin would not be possible. If someone could let me know if my suspicions are correct or not it would be greatly appreciated. If it is not the case and this plugin would in fact be possible, how would you actually create the VM from the plugin? I have been searching through the API documentation and have not bee able to find anything.

Thanks in advance!

Datastore and Snapshot

janetdoyle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:35:25 GMT

Is there a way to identify which VMs are using or "hogging" the datastore? I guess this will be a ratio of virtual disk size used / total datastore size?

How about snapshot size? I looked through the MOB and it wasn't very obivious where this value is (if at all).

Thanks,

Jan

VixDiskLib_Open on RDM (Raw Device Mapping) always returns VIX_E_FILE_ALREADY_LOCKED

red0mark — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:09:57 GMT

All,

Does VDDK 1.1 support RDM(s)? We have a Window XP vm guest with a RDM but the call to VixDiskLib_Open always returns VIX_E_FILE_ALREADY_LOCKED. We are opening the disk in VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_OPEN_READ_ONLY mode.

Thanks,
-Ron

rest api

mdinic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:55:59 GMT

Hi,

I was looking for some example of how to use VMware rest api for fetching of all virtual machines, or all hosts, or virtual machines of specific host, and I did not find any.

The example in class: com.vmware.vim.rest.sample.RestAppDemo does not show much more then hello world, or alt least it looks to me this way.

Also I was unable to find a list of available URL's which can be used. I know that rest client is using managed object browser as rest service provider, but just by browsing it I was unable to find the URL I need.

E.g. this URL would fetch some info about the ESX server:

https://<server>/mob/?moid=ServiceInstance&doPath=content.about

but where can I find any API for rest calls like this (I found this one in class RestAppDemo) or example that is not trivial. Maybe an example to turn on virtual machine?

Can anyone give me some hint, I've been Google-ing for a few days and did not find anything that could help.

Thanks in advance

Why does MOB does not return the MOR sometimes?

adityan20 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:34:25 GMT

Hi,

I am connecting to a VSphere Vcenter4.0. Using this Session I am trying to get the Managed Object Reference of a particular managed entity programatically. Sometimes we have the MOR returned null, both programatically and thru MOB as well.

If any one of you had a similar issue please provide the details. Why does this happen when we have a valid connection and valid managed entity working properly on the Vcenter.

Thanks

Aditya

Session is not authenticated

adityan20 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:25:56 GMT

Hi,

I have connected to

ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr faultCode: ServerFaultCode
faultSubcode:
faultString: The faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{urn:vim25}NotAuthenticate

ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr ERROR 11/17 06:36:23 Stderr

What can be cause

Error: Server
likid000 — Wed, a VSphere VCenter 4.0. With this brand new session when i tried executing com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.queryAvailablePerfMetric(VimBindingStub.java:32080). I am hit with the below exception:
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 AxisFault
session is not authenticated.
dFault:<object type="ResourcePool">resgroup-463773</object><privilegeId>System.Read</privilegeId>
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 The session is not authenticated.
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor170.newInstance(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.<init>(BeanDeserializer.java:104)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer.<init>(BeanDeserializer.java:90)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.vmware.vim25.NotAuthenticated.getDeserializer(NotAuthenticated.java:87)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1128.invoke(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseDeserializerFactory.getSpecialized(BaseDeserializerFactory.java:154)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BaseDeserializerFactory.getDeserializerAs(BaseDeserializerFactory.java:84)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.getDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:464)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.getDeserializerForType(DeserializationContext.java:547)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultDetailsBuilder.onStartChild(SOAPFaultDetailsBuilder.java:157)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startElement(DeserializationContext.java:1035)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:796)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.queryAvailablePerfMetric(VimBindingStub.java:32080)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.monitors.VMwareAdapter.VMwareAdapter.getAvailablePerfMetrics(VMwareAdapter.java:2056)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.monitors.VMwareAdapter.VMwareAdapter.buildQuerySpec(VMwareAdapter.java:898)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.monitors.VMwareAdapter.VMwareAdapter.doPoll(VMwareAdapter.java:1018)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.mf3.MF3PollJob.run(MF3PollJob.java:41)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.mf3.MF3PollJob.doPoll(MF3PollJob.java:25)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.monitors.serialpollengine.SerialPollWorker.run(SerialPollWorker.java:15)
SerialPollEngine-Worker#7 700100 at com.proactivenet.util.ThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(ThreadPool.java:79)
for this, If any of you had a similar experience please share the reason and let me know how do we handle it.
version unavailable at 'https://1.1.1.1/sdk/vimService.wsdl' when connecting to virtual center with connect.pl

04 Nov 2009 12:12:05 GMT

Hi,

I have a strange problem, I have 3 RHEL 5.4 servers that are clones of each other, I have install the SDK on all 3 of them, version:

I have installed VMware-vSphere-SDK-for-Perl-4.0.0-161974

and on 2 servers whith connect.pl it works great:

/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/general/connect.pl --server 1.1.1.1 --username XXX --password XX

Connection Successful
Server Time : 2009-11-04T11:53:30.449415Z

On the third server it doesn't work:

/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/general/connect.pl --server 1.1.1.1 --username XXX --password XX

Error: Server version unavailable at 'https://1.1.1.1/sdk/vimService.wsdl'

I am connecting to a VC with esx 3.5, on the third server I can access the url 'https://1.1.1.1/sdk/vimService.wsdl' with no problems

Any idea what can be the problem ?

Thnx

gsoap/c++ connection to VMware ESX Server 3.5.0

praveenps — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:09:12 GMT

Hi,

I tried to build the attached code and connect with esm 3.5 host, but it fails. FOllowing is the output. I have copied the "rui.crt" file from ESX host (/etc/vmware/ssl dir). Please help!

RetrieveServiceContent - OK
fullName: VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-153875
name: VMware ESX Server
build: 153875
version: 3.5.0

test1.cpp 78
SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode no subcode
"type"
Detail:

Thanks

How to get the service instace?

ChaitanyaS — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:19:08 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone please let me know which API is used to connect to the host server? Which steps do i need to follow?

I went through one of the examples (http://blogs.vmware.com/developer/2009/07/vsphere-sdk-hello-world.html) posted on the community but did not find the same APIs in the WSDL which i've.

I want to connect to host server from my web application (asp.net) and perform various operations on it.

vCloud 0.8 xsd missing schema file import

rinf — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:05:04 GMT

I am trying to generate python objects to deal with the xsd schema. I use generateDS to generate equivalent python objects that will parse the xml strings returned by vCloud Api.

There however seems to be a missing import.

I have added this line just after line 17 and all imports are working well and compiling the generated python module works fine

<xs:import namespace="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" schemaLocation="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1.0.0/cim-schema/2.19.0+/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData.xsd"/>

I have however not found a single online service providing an API. If anyone knows of it can you please point me to it or at least a fake cloud api whichi can run my rest api against or an in-house closu api like eucalyptus for EC2.

Thanks

New counter "sys.cosDiskUsage.latest" added

tmilner — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:58:21 GMT

The vSphere release added this new counter "sys.cosDiskUsage.latest"... anybody know what it reports?

Tom

Fetching network info via VIX Perl API

vplschris — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:31:59 GMT

What is the best method to pull the network information from a selected VM on a selected ESX Server?

How to monitor VM is normally running or facing a problem.

Shigemi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:30:05 GMT

First of all, I wrote my question as document by mistake, so I submit again here.

I have a question how a remote program can monitor VM is normally running or not on VMware.

My environment is VMware ESX 4.0 and VIX API 1.7.
My C++ program can successfully access VMware from remote workstation, monitor power state of VM, power on or shutdown VM. And I want to monitor VM health state in order to confirm VM is normally running, that is power state of VM is running and also VM is not in hang condition.

In case of Hyper-V of Microsoft, VM object, Msvm_ComputerSystem, has HealthState and OperationStatus properties. So it is possible to monitor VM is normally running by periodically monitoring those properties, I think.

In case of VMware, VM object has not such a property. So if anyone has an idea to know health state of VM, please let me know.

I have an idea to confirm VM health by periodically writing and reading variable to VM as follows, but I don't know this is effective or not.
############################################################################
BOOL writeReadPropertiesToVM(VixHandle vmHandle, BOOL* vmOK)
{
BOOL status = FALSE;
VixError err = VIX_OK;
VixHandle jobHandle = VIX_INVALID_HANDLE;
char *readValue = NULL;

jobHandle = VixVM_WriteVariable(vmHandle,
VIX_VM_GUEST_VARIABLE,
"myTestVariable",
"newValue",
0, // options
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL); // clientData);

err = VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (VIX_OK != err)
{
// Handle the error...
const char* errorString = Vix_GetErrorText(err, NULL);
printf("VixVM_WriteVariable, status = 0x0%x(%s).\n", err, errorString);
goto abort;
}
printf("VixVM_WriteVariable succeeded.n");

jobHandle = VixVM_ReadVariable(vmHandle,
VIX_VM_GUEST_VARIABLE,
"myTestVariable",
0, // options
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL); // clientData);
err = VixJob_Wait(jobHandle,
VIX_PROPERTY_JOB_RESULT_VM_VARIABLE_STRING,
&readValue,
VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (VIX_OK != err)
{
// Handle the error...
const char* errorString = Vix_GetErrorText(err, NULL);
printf("VixVM_ReadVariable, status = 0x0%x(%s).\n", err, errorString);
goto abort;
}
printf("VixVM_ReadVariable succeeded.\n");
*vmOK = TRUE;

status = TRUE;

abort:
Vix_FreeBuffer(readValue);
Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);
return status;

}

Thanks and regards,

Shigemi

find_entity_view from MOID

crashdummymch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:19 GMT

Given a Managed Object ID I need to retrieve the managed object reference so that I can call various properties on it.

For example:

Managed Object Type: ManagedObjectReference:VirtualMachine
Managed Object ID: vm-20722

name = "vmtest1"

I can get this via the "name":

$vm_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => {'name' => $vm_name});

However, I need to get the entity view via the MOID

Something like:

$vm_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => {'moid' => 'vm-20722'});

Thanks

Getting NFS datastores performance metrics (version 2.5.0)

ara548 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:12:31 GMT

How do we get nfs datastores perfromance metrics using API?

It seems all instances in perfromance counters of "disk" are for vmfs.

CreateNasDatastore() using the SDK

shaileshd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:28:25 GMT

I am trying to create a datastore on my esx server. I have the Managed Object Reference to the HostDatastoreSystem. I also have set the fields correctly in the HostNasVolumeSpec.

I am using C++, and have not been able to find any examples regarding how to access the methods of different objects.

I have:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR = *((vim2__ManagedObjectReference*)responseContent->propSet[idx]->t;val);

/* __item and type of the hostDatastoreSystemMOR print correctly. type = HostDataStoreSystem and __item prints the name*/

vim2__HostNasVolumeSpec spec;


spec.localPath=""; spec.remoteHost="";spec.remotePath=""; // these are set correctly.

/* at this point I am all set to CreateNasDatastore() */

but my call:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR .CreateNasDatastore(spec)

gets compile error "class vim2__ManagedObjectReference has no member named CreateNasDatastore".

The error looks correct as there is no CreateNasDatastore() in the ManagedObjectReference.

My question is How do I call CreateNasDataStore() when I have a MOR to HostDatastoreSystem.

really appreciate the help.

thanks

WaitForUpdates Hangs

manfred9999 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:39 GMT

Hello

I use WaitForUpdates to receive new events. Somtimes my application hangs on the line of code where the WaitForUpdates is called.

I don't see a solutin to avoid this problem. Does anyone have any simular expierience?

Regards

Manfred

How to find as to which redo log belongs to which base disk ?

vohra — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:28:30 GMT

I have a virtual machine with two virtual disks one is stored with vm itself and other one is on a

different datastore. By default both the disks have same name <vmname>.vmdk (descriptor file).

When I create snapshot of this virtual machine then I can see the redo logs <vmname>-000001.vmdk

and <vmname>-000002.vmdk made in the same folder as vm but I do not how to

know find out which redo log belongs to which base disk.

gaurav

Get Cluster Name of VM with FindEntityViews

crigano — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:39:55 GMT

Hello,

I've got a simple inventory query setup that pulls back all of the virtual machines in vCenter. Is there any easy way to get the cluster name that the VM resides in? I'm not finding a basic VM property that contains this information. I see there's a "parent" property, so I'm not sure if that's what I need to use or not. A code snippet below is basically what I'd like to do:

IList<EntityViewBase> vmList = client.FindEntityViews(typeof(VirtualMachine), null, null, null);

foreach (VirtualMachine vm in vmList)
{
Console.WriteLine(vm.Name);
Console.WirteLine(vm.??)
}

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Trouble with find_entity_views

piuhapofuhpaosf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:08:05 GMT

I'm trying to grab all of the templates from a datacenter. To do that, I'm trying to use find_entity_views and filter by 'config.template' => 1. Unfortunately, this is not working for me. Here's the code:

my $dc = $vim->find_entity_view(view_type=>'Datacenter',
filter=>{name=>'CALO-RTP-DEV'});

my $v = $vim->find_entity_views(view_type=>'VirtualMachine',
filter=>{'config.template'=>1},
begin_entity=>$dc->vmFolder);
print Dumper $v;

foreach my $x (@$v) {
print $x->name ."\n";
}

Unfortunately, no VMs are returned from the find_entity_views call. I've also tried this without using the begin_entity, as well as setting the begin_entity to just be the datacenter itself, and I still get nothing returned. In fact, the only way I've successfully gotten a return value from find_entity_views when using a filter is if to filter only searches the VM name (filter=>{name=>'whateverthenameis'}). That seems to be the only field it will successfully search. Also, it won't return anything when I filter using wildcard characters (filter=>{name=>'.*something.*'} OR filter=>{name=>qr/.*something.*/i}). I've seen samples containing just about all of these sorts of searches, yet none of them work for me. Any ideas why that is? Any help is greatly appareciated.

Problem with undefined value when running vidiscovery.pl

mjglenney — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:40:57 GMT

I am trying to run the following:

./vidiscovery.pl --url https://<hidden>/sdk --username <hidden> --managedentity datacenter --entityname <hidden>

I am prompted for my password and it seems to connect fine. It begins to list items:

 ***************Datacenter <hidden>***************
DataCenter : <hidden>
   Folder : Content Block
      Host : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>
      Host : <hidden>
         VM : <hidden>

and then fails with:

Can't call method "type" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1244, <STDIN> line 1.

Here's the part of that code that is being referenced:

    1215 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1216 # Description: Retrieve the properties of a single managed object.
   1217 # Input: subroutine style:  Vim::get_view(%{mo_ref, view_type})
   1218 #        method call style: vim->get_view(%{mo_ref, view_type})
   1219 #        where
   1220 #           mo_ref     - a managed object reference
   1221 #           view_type  - the type of view to construct from the managed object
   1222 # Output: a managed object view instance
   1223 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1224 sub get_view {
   1225    my %args;
   1226    my $self = undef;
   1227    my $service;
   1228    my ($first_arg) = @_;
   1229    if ($first_arg && ref $first_arg eq 'Vim') {
   1230       ($self, %args) = @_;
   1231    } else {
   1232       %args = @_;
   1233       $self = $vim_global;
   1234       unless (defined $vim_global) {
   1235          Carp::croak("No global session in existence - perhaps need to login first\n");
   1236       }
   1237    }
   1238    $service = $self->{vim_service};
   1239
   1240    if (! exists($args{mo_ref})) {
   1241       Carp::confess("mo_ref argument is required");
   1242    }
   1243    my $mo_ref = $args{mo_ref};
   1244    my $view_type = $mo_ref->type;
   1245    if (exists ($args{view_type})) {
   1246       $view_type = $args{view_type};
   1247    }
   1248    my $properties = "";
   1249    if (exists($args{properties}) &&
   1250        defined($args{properties}) &&
   1251        $args{properties} ne "") {
   1252       $properties = $args{properties};
   1253    }
   1254    my $view = $view_type->new($mo_ref, $self);
   1255    $view->update_view_data($properties);
   1256    return $view;
   1257 }
   1258

So it's calling 'type' with $mo_ref which is apparantly undefined though I don't see why. Any ideas on what I can look at?

I am running vSphere SDK for Perl 4.0.0

Trouble with find_entity_views

piuhapofuhpaosf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:08:00 GMT

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl --default --compile any hidden options?

reapur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:28:02 GMT

Hi,
I dug up a very old post to silent install the vmware-tools on linux. There are a bunch of posts on how to silent install them in windows, but I need linux.
So I found this someone posted
/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl --default --compile
It seems to work, but it's setting the display size to HUGE, and I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a way to control the display size while still keeping it a non-interactive setup.

Best Regards

Prevent VM from being deleted

scott2 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:42 GMT

I am trying to find out if there is a way to prevent a VM from being 'Removed from Inventory' or 'Delete from Disk'. When I am running my code on a VM i don't want the user to be able to delete it. I have a CustomTask associated with the VM and there is a field in TaskInfo called locked. Does anyone know how to set the locked field or even if that will fix my problem.

Api to create a Share in the Guest machine from host

SumitBisht — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:02:36 GMT

please provide the API to create a shared folder in the Guest Machine form the host. And if possible with the sample code.

Thanks,

Sumit

VI SDK and Linked mode questions

eGBabu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:28:56 GMT

Hi

I'm using VI SDK java to find out the following:

1) Is there any method available to find out the list of vCenters linked by connecting to a vCenter?
2) How to get the vCenter Service Status details which i can see in vSphere client?
3) Is it possible to know whether the vCenter is using the local database or remote?

Regards

Tutorial: Get Your First VI SDK Application Running in 5 Minutes-- Beta 2 released

Steve Jin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:19:22 GMT

Just wrote a tutorial:

http://vijava.wiki.sourceforge.net/vijavaapisetup

Steve JIN, VMware Engineering
Creator of VMware Infrastructure Java API. VI Java API 2.0 --- 15 times faster than AXIS in loading, 4+ faster in deserialization; only 1/4 of the size required by AXIS. More importantly, the freedom to redistribute your applications. (Download, Samples, DocWiki, RSS Feed)
Get Connected with Other Developers in the Community?

Resetting a machine's internal IP address in LM 4.0?

tleavitt — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:01:44 GMT

Here's my situation: I am cloning multiple Library configurations into an existing workspace configuration using the internal SOAP API (4.0). I already have everything working with LibraryCloneToWorkspace(), including a provision for if multiple machines are inserted with the same name (renaming them as they are added so that they are sure to have a unique name, like LM does internally), and using MachineResetMacAddress() to prevent conflicts with that.

The issue I run into (which is a common case for my application) is that two machines based on the same template are cloned into the same configuration; thus, they have the same name, MAC address, and internal IP. I have the name and MAC address issues sorted out, as I said... but I don't yet have a way to deal with the internal IP.

I intend to keep looking around for a solution, but I was wondering if anyone else has run into the same issue. My guess is that the answer is either in some obscure, yet-undocumented option in MachinePerformAction, or in some argument for a deployment method (i.e., the "Force Recustomization" checkbox). Any ideas?

On a related note, has anyone seen the 4.0 internal API docs floating around?

iscsi initiator from the guest os

shaileshd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:55:49 GMT

I have ESX Server 4.0. It has windows server 2003 VM. From my client I have to get various properties of the esx server and the VM.
I am not able to find a way to get the name of the microsoft iscsi initiator (initiator node name) installed on the windows vm. The name of the initiator is iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:appdemoexch.appdemo.sspg.lab.emc.com.

I need this info to be populated on the client.

To get the info I am using the VI SDK 4.0. I am also looking at the MOB browser and have looked at each property and the links for the relevant VM, but none of the properties seem to return this info.

I need to confirm if this info can be obtained. And if it can, it will be great if someone explains how.

thanks for the help.

shailesh

Disk Latency Metric

janetdoyle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:20:12 GMT

Disk Latency Metric

Can that be retrieved via the SDK?

Thanks,

Jan

Welcome to the VMware vCenter ChargeBack API - Community

heyitspablo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:53:37 GMT

Welcome Developers,

Join our newly minted community, ask questions, participate and be recognized.

Pablo Roesch

Can we use vim2.5 to connect to ESX3.0 and ESX 3.5?

haroon09 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:15:08 GMT

Can we use vim2.5 to connect to ESX3.0 and ESX 3.5? I found from the samples that we have to connec to vim2.0 and then if ESX supports vim2.5 we can convert the ManagedObject to vim2.5 type and can access new vim2.5 methods. It is hassel to include two vims in the project.

CopyFilefromHostToGuest C# webservices or VIXAPI

sid101020203030 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:52:46 GMT

Hi,

Can any one help me to CopyFileFromHostToGuest using the Web Services in C#. Any sample code would be greatly appreciated.

I am using VIX PAI call VixVM_CopyFileFromHostToGuest. But this call seems to be not working corectly. The VIX API call only working when i specify the particular directory on th Host System and it is copying all the files in the directory to the destination. If I specify the particular file to copy it is throwing the error.

Thanks a lot for the Help!

How to use VixDiskLib_Attach?

Jeegn — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:46:59 GMT

I try to use VixDiskLib_Attach as below, but always get the error message "The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created". Can anyone give me a sample code? Thanks in advance!

//
//dchInfo.parent = "Z:\\Jeegn
parent.vmdk";
//dchInfo.lchild = "Z:\\Jeegn
lchild.vmdk";
//dchInfo.rchild = "Z:\\Jeegn
rchild.vmdk";
//

void DoCreateAttach3(DiskChainInfo& dchInfo)
{
VixDiskLibConnectParams cnxParams = {0};
VixDiskLibConnection connection = NULL;
VixDiskLibCreateParams createParams;
bool lchildCreated = false, rchildCreated = false;
VixError vixError = 0;
try {
createParams.adapterType = (VixDiskLibAdapterType)3;
createParams.capacity = 16384;
createParams.diskType = VIXDISKLIB_DISK_MONOLITHIC_FLAT;
createParams.hwVersion = VIXDISKLIB_HWVERSION_WORKSTATION_5;
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Connect to localhost"<<endl;
{color:#000000}vixError = VixDiskLib_Connect(&cnxParams, &connection);
CHECK_AND_THROW(vixError);
{color:#ff00ff}cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Create parent Disk"<<endl;
vixError = VixDiskLib_Create(connection, dchInfo.parent, &createParams, NULL, NULL);
CHECK_AND_THROW(vixError);
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Open Parent Disk"<<endl;
VixDisk parentDisk(connection, dchInfo.parent, VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_OPEN_READ_ONLY);
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Create right child Disk"<<endl;
VixDiskLibCreateParams createParams;
createParams.adapterType = (VixDiskLibAdapterType)3;
createParams.capacity = 16384;
createParams.diskType = VIXDISKLIB_DISK_MONOLITHIC_SPARSE;
createParams.hwVersion = VIXDISKLIB_HWVERSION_WORKSTATION_5;
vixError = VixDiskLib_Create(connection, dchInfo.rchild, &createParams, NULL, NULL);
CHECK_AND_THROW(vixError);
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Open right child Disk"<<endl;
VixDisk rchildDisk(connection, dchInfo.rchild, VIXDISKLIB_FLAG_OPEN_READ_ONLY);
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Attach right child Disk to parent Disk"<<endl;
{color:#000000}vixError = VixDiskLib_Attach(parentDisk.Handle(), rchildDisk.Handle());
CHECK_AND_THROW(vixError);
cout<<":::::::::::::::::::::Attach success"<<endl;
parentDisk.Close();
rchildDisk.Close();
VixDiskLib_Disconnect(connection);
} catch (const VixDiskLibErrWrapper& e) {
if (connection)
VixDiskLib_Disconnect(connection);
cout << "Error: ~~" << e.File() << ":" << e.Line() << "~~ " <<
std::hex << e.ErrorCode() << " " << e.Description() << "\n";
}

}

Coffee Talk Webinar - Creating vSphere Client Plugins - Wed December 2rd, 2009 9:00 AM PST

heyitspablo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:04:46 GMT

Folks,

We are happy to have Nimish from the R&D team present this very popular session on creating vSphere Client Plugins. Please join us.
PDF, MP3 and Web Ex will be posted here right after webinar.

Title: Creating vSphere Client Plug-ins
Abstract: VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins allows VMware partners/ customers to extend vSphere client by integrating with 3rd party applications. In this session you will understand capabilities of vSphere client's extensibility framework, best practices in development of plug-ins.
Level Advanced
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 9:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco)
Meeting Number: 921 448 054
Meeting Password: (This meeting does not require a password.)
Dial In: Toll free: 1-888-373-5705
Toll: 1-719-457-3840
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Join Meeting: https://vmware.webex.com/vmware/j.php?ED=124086677&UID=0
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What do i need to use the VIX?

eXeC001er — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:36:46 GMT

Hello!

My questions:
1. Supported guest OS?
2. What do i need to install in guest OS?

I tried to use VIX on Solaris 10 (i use Vmware Workstation 7.0 on Windows). In guest OS installed vmware tools (version from WS6.5).

vmrun -T ws -gu root -gw ******** "full_path_to_vmx_file" "cmd_in_guest_os"
Error: This operation is not supported on this guest

why?

Add existing vmdk to VM using VI Perl toolkit

virtualbob1 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:29:40 GMT

HI,

Is there a way to use the toolkit to add an existing hard disk file to an existing virtual machine? I see functions for adding new disks, but nothing that is already created.

Thanks

SetTaskState questions

mseries — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use the SetTaskState method to cancel a task, providing a specific message, but I'm not having much luck.

My first question is: is setting the task state to 'error' and specifying a RequestCanceled fault the same as canceling the task? For example, if it's a CloneVM_Task, will it terminate all sub-tasks and clean up any previously generated artifacts?

My next question is: does anyone have a working example of the use of this command? No matter what I try, I always get the following fault:

:code => 'ServerFaultCode', :reason => 'The operation is not allowed in the current state.'

The task is running when I issue the SetTaskState request, so I don't understand the cause of the error.

I'm using an API binding generated from the API's wsdl, but a Perl example would prove to be just as useful.

Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.

vmdk specification with vsphere

dayra01 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:01 GMT

Hi,

Is VMDK format specification 1.1 is compatible with vSphere VMDK disks as well?? The sparse disk specification in VMDK format specification 1.1 holds for thin provisioned disks also..??? Please clarify on this.

Do we have any separate VMDK specification for vSphere release??

Thanks,

-Raghu.

Questions on Bursting between Internal Clouds & External Clouds with vCloud

RYELURI — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:11 GMT

i have a few questions on Internal clouds and External cloud with vCloud Services.

1. What is the current availability vCloud Services stack that can be deployed on vSphere platform? Is it the beta of the "vCloud Appliance"?

2. If I have to federate between a Data Center (which has vSphere...) and a Service Provider with vCloudExpress, what would be be the approach?

How would I create vAPPs?
Could I programmatically interface with the vCloud APIs at the ~~vCLoudExpress@Service~~ Provider?
Is there a vCenter plug-in to manage the remote (Service Provider) private cloud from the Enterprise?
Do I have to have a VPN Tunnel between the Enterprise and the Service Provider (for me to use the vCloudExpress as an "overflow" capacity)
Thanks in advance for the answers
-raghu

How do I install, start, shut down, and suspend VMs via command line?

Romanadvoratrelundar — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:17:17 GMT

I've installed ESXi 4.0 on a computer, and would like to create and manage VMs via command line (via SSH). I tried installing the command line tools on Linux, but the commands don't work - they complain about some missing PERL library, and I haven't been able to get them to work.

I have gotten some command line access to work by using the console to enable ssh access, and then sshing in from another host, but despite going through teh command line documentation, it's still not clear to me how to do this. So here's what I want to do:

1) Create one or more virtual machines (say, with Linux or Windows server running on them)

2) Power on a VM

3) Suspend a VM

4) Wake a suspended VM

5) Power off a VM

6) Shut down the machine hosting ESXi.

7) Get actual CPU usage for a hosted VM.

Can someone please tell me what the correct commands are to do this? Even if you know just one, it would be helpful.

Thanks!

how to assign a mac-address manually via the SDK

schue — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:43:54 GMT

Hi all,

I want to add a NIC to an instance of a VM via the vSphere API for Perl with a MAC Address choosen from "me".

I do not want, that the vCenter assign the MAC automatically, what is the default.

I'm frustrated because I did not find anything in the internet.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,

Henning

How do I programmatically connect cdrom device on virtual machine in vmware server 2

rodaj — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:53:49 GMT

The problem: Automate loading of multiple iso image "product" onto a virtual machine.

Searching I've found that changing the iso image for a cdrom virtual drive in a virtual machine seems to be a common problem, but seldom is there any solution.

I've found references to vmware-cmd disconnectdevice/connectdevice. I've also found "legacy" script APIs that can essentially perform the same thing. However, seems this isn't available for vmware server 2 (only ESX and GSX server...). I've found that vmrun is replacement for vmware-cmd, with the exception that there are some things vmware-cmd could do that doesn't appear as an option in any documentation I can find with vmrun. The same goes for the VIX APIs. Again nothing found that helps with the connection issue.

I've already figured out how to use the writeVariable option with vmrun to modify the iso pointed to for the virtual cdrom. The only step missing in automation is the automatic re-connecting of the virtual cdrom. If I manually start a console and click on the cdrom icon in the bottom and select connect, everything works. Problem is, I want to have that accomplished programatically and prefereably not through some gui automator.

Is this just a limitation of vmware server 2 product? i.e. I need to get ESX instead? I guess an alternative is to make a giant iso so no switching is required, but that just postpones the problem. Is installation of software via iso images just so unpopular on linux that its not a frequent enough problem to address? Maybe I've just been searching too long and developed "tunnel vision". Any help/advice anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

vmware server 2.01 on SLES 10 SP2 with guest also containing SLES 10 SP2 on x86-64 hardware.

VixDiskLib samply compilation failure

fishboyzyf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:19:29 GMT

Compile error prompted the following:

g++ -o vix-disklib-sample `pkg-config --cflags --libs vix-disklib` vixDiskLibSample.cpp

/usr/bin/ld: warning: libfuse.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib32/libvixMntapi.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib32/libvixMntapi.so: undefined reference to `fuse_main_real@FUSE_2.5'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** vix-disklib-sample Error 1

where is my error?

Development Environment : red hat 5.4 32 bit

Method for top level PerformanceManager properties

silmaril — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:17:29 GMT

What method should be used to query the description, historicalInterval and perfCounter properties of the Performance Manager Object?

Regards

The operation is not allowed in the current state

johndemic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:44:14 GMT

Hey All,

I'm executing the following SOAP request to determine the amount of tasks running on VirtualCenter:

<CreateCollectorForTasks xmlns="urn:vim2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<_this type="TaskManager">TaskManager</_this>
<filter>
<state>running</state>
</filter>
</CreateCollectorForTasks>

This works well, but under some circumstances (which appear load related) I occasionally get a response as follows:

"The operation is not allowed in the current state"

I've previously only seen this error when performing invalid operations on a VM, like trying to stop an already stopped server.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanls,
-jd

"Invalid user name or password for the guest OS" error in vmrun runProgramInGuest Operation

michal zobec — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:32:11 GMT

Hi all,

i have this script

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws revertToSnapshot "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx" "testovani instalace 3"
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws start "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx"
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws -gu user -gp aaaa copyFileFromHostToGuest "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx" E:\lgo\software\tes4-oblivion-isles\_actual\Output\lgooblivionshiveringislesczech100.exe c:\temp\lgooblivionshiveringislesczech100.exe
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws -gu user -gp aaaa runProgramInGuest "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx" -activeWindow -interactive c:\temp\lgooblivionshiveringislesczech100.exe /silent

all operations is ok but last operation is write this error message: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS

i am not understand this. if you see for console output:

E:\lgo\software\tes4-oblivion-isles\_actual>"C:\Program Files (x86)\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws
+ -gu user -gp aaaa copyFileFromHostToGuest "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows+
+ xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx" E:\lgo\software\tes4-oblivion-isles\_actual\Output\lgooblivionshiveringisl+
esczech100.exe c:\temp\lgooblivionshiveringislesczech100.exe

E:\lgo\software\tes4-oblivion-isles\_actual>"C:\Program Files (x86)\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws
+ -gu user -gp aaaa runProgramInGuest "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hr+
y\windows xp hry.vmx" -activeWindow -interactive c:\temp\lgooblivionshiveringislesczech100.exe /silent

Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS

first guest operation is run ok and second with same username and password not run for username and password problems

host: windows vista ultimate english x64 sp2
guest: windows xp professional sp3
vmproduct: vmware workstation 7 rtm

Any idea for this problem?
thanks for any help

michal zobec

SOAP request for performance information

silmaril — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:11:30 GMT

I'm trying to build a Soap request in ruby and is unable to retrieve performance information from the vCenter server.

Below is the request I'm using. Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong?

<env:Body>
<n2:QueryPerfComposite xmlns:n2="urn:vim25">
<n2:_this type="PerformanceManager">PerfMgr</n2:_this>
<n2:querySpec xsi:type="n2:PerfQuerySpec">
<n2:entity>vm-585</n2:entity>
</n2:querySpec>
</n2:QueryPerfComposite>
</env:Body>

= Response

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Technology Exchange - Developer Day Session: Creating vSphere Client Plugins

heyitspablo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:52:58 GMT

Folks - Happy to let you know that we will be having a session dedicated to creating vSphere Client Plugins - Dont miss out, we will also have opportunity for hands on labs and meet Nimish and Manas. Look forward to seeing you there.

Title: Creating vSphere Client Plug-ins
Session ID: TBD
Abstract
VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins allows VMware partners/ customers to extend vSphere client by integrating with 3rd party applications. In this session you will understand capabilities of vSphere client's extensibility framework, best practices in development of plug-ins and participate in hands-on demos.
Level Advanced

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joc3ZFQyoCo{youtube}

Nimish Sheth
I have been at VMware for more than 2 years and am part of the vSphere client team. I have worked on vSphere client's plug-in framework in 2.5 and 4.0 releases. Apart from plug-ins, in 4.0 release I worked on UI design & development of Storage VMotion, Fault Tolerance and vNetwork Distributed Switch. I completed my Master's in Management Informations Systems (MIS) from Texas A & M in December 2005. When not working, I like playing cricket, tennis and listening to music.

Manas Kelshikar
I have been at VMware for 2 years and am part of the vSphere client team. I have worked on vSphere client's plug-in framework in the 4.0 release. I completed my Master's in Computer Engineering from Syracuse.

Limit on the number of mounted disks

giladb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:42:37 GMT

Is there a limit on the number of simultaneous virtual disk that can be mounted with vmware-mount ?
What about mounting VDDK ?

Assuming I am mounting the disks on a Linux machine, is there a limit from the Linux side ?

VixDiskLib Opening delta disks (snapshots

tos2k — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:26:08 GMT

Hi!

Is it possible to open delta disks with VixDiskLib? Currently connect fails for me:

Trying to connect to: [TP_SANVOL01] test-Delta/test-Delta.vmx?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=TP_SANVOL01 disk: [TP_SANVOL01]test-Delta/test-Delta-000001.vmdk
conn 0 : connPtr 9522368
** INFO: TicketResolveHostName: Resolving IP address for hostname 192.168.73.204.

** INFO: TicketResolveHostName: Resolved to 192.168.73.204.

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLogin

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketFindDatacenter: dcPath = -ha-datacenter- 

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketFindVMByDatastorePath: vmxPath = -[TP_SANVOL01] test-Delta/test-Delta.vmx- 

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLoadVM

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: Root Snapshot list has 1 elements.

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: Unable to find key for disk [TP_SANVOL01]test-Delta/test-Delta-000001.vmdk, trying snapshot tree.

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketCollectSnapshots

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLoadSnapshot

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLoadVMCb

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLoadInternalSic 

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLoadNfcTicket: Request FileManagement diskKey = 2000, readOnly = 0, openSnapshot = 1 

** INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLogout 

---EX caught: 0  :  System.OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.
   at vddkNativeTest.Module1.Init(String hostIp, String user, String pass, String vmxSource, String vmxTarget, String sourceDatastore, String targetDatastore, String currentDisk, String targetDisk, String datacenter)

The VM has that snapshot, is powered-off and the connect works fine for base disks... Any ideas?

Tos2k

Opening a child disk fails

rtalwar — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:43:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm using vixDiskLibSample program provided with Windows VDDK to open a child disk and getting following error. Any suggestions what is wrong here?

Thanks,

Rajesh

C:\>"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit\bin\vixDiskLibSample.exe" -host abc -user user -password password -single -info /vmfs/volumes/voltron-storage2/rtlnxvm/rtlnxvm-000001.vmdk

INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLogin

INFO: VixDiskLibVim: TicketLogout

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.

SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to open the product registry key. Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
NFC ERROR NfcFssrvr_DiskOpen: received diskLib error 5 from server: NfcFssrvrO
pen: Failed to get geometry for disk '/vmfs/volumes/voltron-storage2/rtlnxvm/rtlnxvm-000001.vmdk': An error was detected.

Error: ~~c:\program files\vmware\vmware virtual disk development kit\doc\sample\vixdisklibsample.cpp:388~~ 500003e83 The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Please open the parent virtual disk

Which version of 'fuse/libfuse' will work with VMware vMA 4.0 & VDDK 1.1 ?

lamw — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:32:09 GMT

I was hoping this would have solved the initial problem installing VDDK 1.1: Got problems installing VDDK 1.1 onto VMware vMA 4.0? Solution here but apparently VMware vMA 4.0 does have not fuse installed by default. I've been scouring the net, to find an appropriate rpm package from free rpm distribution sites and they all lead to multiple dependencies that gets pretty convoluted. Even though the VDDK 1.1 documentation specifies downloading fuse from http://fuse.sourceforge.net, there is not a gcc compiler installed on vMA either. Without having to install additional packages/etc. is there a specific version of fuse and libfuse we should be using and that is available for download? or are we out of luck for using a VMware vApp ?

[vi-admin@scofield ~][http://himalaya.primp-industries.com|http://himalaya.primp-industries.com]$ sudo vmware-mount -v ha-datacenter/vm/horrid -h himalaya.primp-industries.com -u root -F pass "[http://himalaya-local-SATA.Storage|http://himalaya-local-SATA.Storage] horrid/horrid.vmdk" vddk_vmfs/horrid/
fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first
Fuse daemon exited with error.
Failed to mount disk '[http://himalaya-local-SATA.Storage|http://himalaya-local-SATA.Storage] horrid/horrid.vmdk': The VMware fuse daemon failed to start

Here is the version of libfuse I installed to get VDDK 1.1 installed

[vi-admin@scofield ~][http://himalaya.primp-industries.com|http://himalaya.primp-industries.com]$ rpm -qa | grep fuse
fuse-libs-2.7.4-8_10.el5

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VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
vGhetto Script Repository
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
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Uninstalling legacy installation... This version of "VMware VIX API" is incompatible with this operating system. Please install the "x86_64" version of this program instead.

sbuhk — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:20:51 GMT

get this error when trying to install workstation 7 after removing workstation RC1.

Uninstalling legacy installation...
This version of "VMware VIX API" is incompatible with this operating system.
Please install the "x86_64" version of this program instead.

kernel 2.6.27.29-0.1

I am using a x64 Opensuse 11.1 install.

i have tried to install both32 bit and 64

"One of the parameters was invalid" while performing guest operations

articblast — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:03:44 GMT

I have an application that copies files to a VM Image, runs and applications, and then copies the result files back.

The application loops through several configurations, at the begining of the loop it connects to a Server and opens a connection to an image.

At the end of the loop it closes the connection to the Server.

The application gets through 3 iterations just fine, but during the 4th interations it get "One of the parameters was invalid" whild performing guest operations.

At first I thought it was not getting a connection to the Image because it was happening before the first copy, but I do not get the message telling me that the application was not logged in.

I tried increasing the wait time for VMTools incase it wasn't waiting long enough and now it will begin coping files but fails after copying a few files.

I would just put in a check to see if the result file was copied back, but the application crashes when it attempts to revert the image.

Where to download VIX API 1.8?

reisenhoferf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:44:51 GMT

Hi all,

Some days ago Vmware has announced VIX API 1.8. I have installed Vmware Player 3.0. Inside this installation I could not find the VIX 1.8 which can be used to control VMware Player 3.0. Any idea where to download this new version? Or can this API only be installed with Vmware Workstation 7.0?

Thanks for a hint.

ovftool coredumped

luger_lee — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:35 GMT

I use ovftool to deploy an appliance to a host (esx 3.5i). after disk copy done, I got an error message and the tool core dumped.

What does the message means ?

Thanks in advance.

Opening OVF source: /home/luger_lee/tmpout/VMware-VIPerl-Toolkit-1.6.0-104313-Appliance/VMware-RCLI-3.5-U2-Appliance.ovf
Warning: No manifest file
Opening VI target: vi://root@alaska/
Target: vi://alaska/

Disk progress: 1%
...
Disk progress: 99%
Disk Transfer Failed
Error: Unable to get NFC ticket for target disk
Error: Failed to clean up after failure. Reason: vim.fault.NotAuthenticated
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Vim::Fault::NotAuthenticated::Exception'

what(): vim.fault.NotAuthenticated
Terminate process signal received - aborting operation/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 32361 Aborted (core dumped) $OVFTOOL_BIN "$@"

How to move a vm from one virtual switch to another from the SDK / command line?

RationalPi42 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:55 GMT

How do you move a vm from one virtual switch to another from the SDK / command line?

Joshua Smith

ESX Networking Toolkit Demo

heyitspablo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:54:59 GMT

Found an interesting ESX Networking Toolkit Demo of a tool under development. "Hopefully this tool will help VI admins with their daily work. It is a VA and will register with VC as an extension. It operates at data center level, basically it checks various network configurations and connectivity inside a host and across hosts."

{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e6POyNfVHI{youtube}

vmware-install.pl empty

Tashi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:58:10 GMT

Hallo,

I am trying to install the VDDK. I am on linux Suse 10.

I have downloaded the last version of the package. Like writen in the Install guide I have try to run the vmware-install.pl but nothing happens. The file vmware-install.pl is empty!
sles10SP164bit:~/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib # l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Nov 4 16:49 $
drwx------ 12 12272 root 400 Nov 4 17:50 ./
drwx------ 29 root root 1640 Nov 4 18:16 ../
-r-x------ 1 12272 root 10811 Apr 28 2009 FILES*
drwx------ 2 12272 root 168 Nov 2 13:31 bin32/
drwx------ 3 12272 root 192 Nov 4 17:45 bin64/
drwx------ 6 12272 root 440 Nov 4 17:49 doc/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 80 Nov 2 13:31 etc/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 144 Nov 2 13:31 include/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 80 Nov 2 13:31 installer/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 984 Nov 2 13:31 lib32/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 984 Nov 2 13:31 lib64/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 88 Nov 2 13:31 plugins32/
drwx------ 2 12272 root 88 Nov 2 13:31 plugins64/
*-rwx------ 1 12272 root 0 Apr 28 2009 vmware-install.pl**

Thank you for your help!

Mario

Can't get disk.totalLatency.average performance counter

luger_lee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:51:43 GMT

Hi

I have a task to make a command used for collecting many of performance data.

The command failed for lack of disk.totalLatency.average performance counter in all of virtual machines. The target is a ESX 4.0 server host, and vSphare SDK for perl has been used.

Any hint is precious to me.

Thanks in advance.

determining expired configurations

MartinCartwright — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:16:45 GMT

It seems that ListConfigurations() calls return all configurations, including those whose storage lease has expired. We would like to be able to exclude these configurations from the results, but can see no way to distinguish between an expired configuration and an unexpired configuration. we are currently using the v3 api. Looking at v4 it seems there are additional methods and members relating to leases, but still nothing that would enable us to figure out if a configuration's storage lease had expired.

Is there any way to achieve this? Or at least is there a way to determine if a config has expired from any other properties?

How do you VixPropertyList_AllocPropertyList in VixCOM (or how to open an encrypted VM)?

dblock — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:02 GMT

I've added support to VixCOM 1.8 to VMWareTasks (Player, etc.), but I can't figure out how to allocate a new property list from C# via VIXCOM to support encrypted virtual machines. I want this code basically in C#. Ideas?

err = VixPropertyList_AllocPropertyList(hostHandle,
&propertyHandle,
VIX_PROPERTY_VM_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD,
"vmPassword",
VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (err != VIX_OK) {
// Handle the error...
goto abort;
}

// Open the virtual machine:
jobHandle = VixHost_OpenVM(hostHandle,
"c:
Virtual Machines\\vm1
win2000.vmx",
VIX_VMOPEN_NORMAL,
propertyHandle,
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL); // clientData

What is tmpdir used for ?

giladb — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:58:55 GMT

One of the configuration items used by VDDK is tmpdir.

As far as I could tell, this is where logs are written, assuming log function pointers are NOT provided to initialization functions.

If these pointers are provided, what is this directory used for ?

Plugin Object Attributes - how are they accessed

BlueDevilDan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:36:30 GMT

How does Orchestrator implement the mapping of script-object attributes? Does it directly access the Java class members? Does it utilize getter/setter methods? I'm kind of seeing that it may be some combination of the two.

This has an impact on how I need to rearchitect aspects of my plugin class with has some List type attributes in java which cannot be set from the Java Script Arrays. I need to know if I need to adjust the member type and visibility ot just provide different setter/getter method signatures.

Get mac address without VMware tools running

kilo666 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:43:36 GMT

I've been looking around to see if there was a way to get the mac address for a VM without VMware tools running. I know you can see this information from the vSphere gui when editing the hardware, so I would think it would be accessible without VMware tools, but maybe not.
Does anyone know if/how this can be accomplished?

Thanks,
Michael

Setup Network/Vlan during CloneVM in .net

DroppedAtBirth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:53:30 GMT

I currently have a process to clone a vm but can't seem to find a way to set the Network/Vlan on the network adapter at the time it is cloned. Have found a few partial examples of it being done after a clone is complete, but would prefer it to be done all in one step if possible. If anyone has a .net example or can point me in the write direction i would be greatly appricated.

vimService.wsdl - connect.pl

varaway — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:39:34 GMT

hello,

i have installed vSphere ESX 4 and vCenter 4. On the ESX, I installed the vim Perl vdk Toolkit.
/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/general ....
perl connect.pl --url https://server_name/sdk/vimService --username xxxxx --password xxxxxxx

I get this error:
Error: Server version unavailable at 'https://server_name:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl'

Have anywhere an idea?
best regards
Andi

how to change ovf exported from vsphere to be compatible with workstation?

zoomprofile — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:23 GMT

Hi,

we want make our virtual appliance as vmware ready. We want have OVF file with VMDK compatible with vmware workstation, player, server and esx3.5. But we have only Vmware vSphere. vSphere exports OVF to format 1.0. But I cant import this format to older versions as Workstation 6.5 (but to 7.0 i can't too), to esx 3.5, etc....

What can I do for it to import it? I have template of ovf 0.9. I try to rewrite it. Import was sucessful, but when I start this machine which includes Linux with vmware toolsm kernel says KERNEL PANIC. Is there other format of exported VMDK file on esx 4 than esx 3?

Is is neccessary to make it compatible with Workstation to have vmware ready for VA status??

Please help...

Failed to open vmdk

MissionaryLiao — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:19:23 GMT

Hi all,

Here is some of my environment info:
- VMWare ESXi 4.0.0, 164009
- VMWare vCenter Server 4.0.0, 162856
- GuestOS: Win2k3 Server SP2

I use VixDiskLib_Open to open a vmdk, however, I got the error code: 0x36b9(14009): VIX_E_HOST_NETWORK_CONN_REFUSED.
I was confused by this error code because there is no error returned when I called VixDiskLib_Init and VixDiskLib_Connect.

Also there is no relative document on this error code, only short description: The server refused connection.

Can anyone here give me some hint for further investigation ?? Thanks.

Does vmrun in 1.7 support reverting to snapshots on ESX?

mcheshier — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:03:06 GMT

This was a dealbreaker for me in 1.62, and it's still not working for me in 1.7... am I doing something wrong? Here's what I'm doing:

1. C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h "https://myserver" -u "root" -p "xxxx" listSnapshots "storage1 AUTOINSTALLER-W2K8_32_1/AUTOINSTALLER-W2K8_32.vmx"

Total snapshots: 5
base - no SQL Server install
SQL Server 2005 SP2 with correct machine name
Ready to Debug - VS 2008 with SVN
SQL 2008 installed with correct machine name
Base with VMWare tools, correct machine name

2. C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h "https://myserver" -u "root" -p "xxxx" revertToSnapshot "storage1 AUTOINSTALLER-W2K8_32_1/AUTOINSTALLER-W2K8_32.vmx" "Base with VMWare tools, correct machine name"

Error: One of the parameters was invalid

As you can see, I'm connecting to the server just fine and receiving a list of snapshots, but I'm unable to revert.

Creating multiple VMs from same base image

atrockz — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:22:59 GMT

HI all,

Is there any vi sdk api by which i can create multiple VMs form same base vmdk file?

All the VM create from the base VMDK file will have their own delta vmdk file which will refer the same base VMDK file. Only the changes that are done on individual VM will be saved on their respective delta vmdk files.

Thanks in advance......

HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl importKey Property Format

MikeMatczynski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:54:16 GMT

I'm importing an OVF appliance into vCenter 4.0 using the VI API (vijava to be specific).

I'm calling the importVApp method to get a HttpNfcLease, which gives me a HttpNfcLeaseInfo, and a list of HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl objects.

Question is:

What determines the format of the HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl's importKey property? Based on the OVF file described below, the importKey is being set to the value "/ImportTest1/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4". I understand how "/TestExport1" is generated, but I am not sure how "/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4" is derived. I would have expected it to be named after the OVF's diskId property.

I'm free to modify the OVF, so if there's anything I need to set on the Harddisk elements, that'd be fine as well.

Thanks!

Mike

Excerpts from the OVF descriptor:

<References>
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef0" ovf:href="ImportTest.vmdk" ovf:size="447" />
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef1" ovf:href="ImportTest-flat.vmdk" ovf:size="1048576" />
</References>
<DiskSection>
<Info>List of the virtual disks used in the package</Info>
<ovf:Disk ovf:capacity="1048576" ovf:diskId="disk0" ovf:fileRef="fileRef0" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" />
</DiskSection>

...

<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>SCSI Controller 0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>LsiLogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>
<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>Harddisk disk0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/disk0</rasd:HostResource>
<rasd:InstanceID>11</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>10</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>

ovfManager and obtaining reference to

paul_xtravirt — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:51:14 GMT

I have been trying to use the OVFManager through the SDK to import an OVF VM. I am using vb.net and c#. However, I cannot see how to connect to the OVFManager (cannot see it anywhere).

Does anyone have some example code on how to do this?

iops

fadedsoul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:24:54 GMT

I'm trying to find a way to automate the collection of disk metrices from our VC server so we can start reporting iops at the disk level on each esx host and guest os in a csv file. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could accomplish that task? I'm rather new to vmware, so forgive me if this seems

Thanks

VixDiskLib_Cleanup

giladb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:32:28 GMT

The header file says about VixDiskLib_Cleanup
* When using VixDiskLib_ConnectEx, some state might have not been cleaned
* up if the resulting connection was not shut down cleanly. Use
* VixDiskLib_Cleanup to remove this extra state.

It is not really clear when the function should be used.
What types of unclean situations does it clean up ?

I have a one-shot (Linux) app that grabs information from a disk and then exits. Would it be a good idea to always call the function before connecting ? Before exiting ?

C# Using Single SignOn (SSPI) for Virtual Center 2.5.0.119598

utarion — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:21:29 GMT

I am trying to use passthru authentication using SSPI to work in my c# application. Here is a snippet of the code I am trying to get to work.

returns a reference for VMware.Vim.SessionManager

VMware.Vim.VimClient vimClient = new VMware.Vim.VimClient();
vimClient.Connect("10.x.x.x", CommunicationProtocol.Https, 443);

ManagedObjectReference serviceInstance = new ManagedObjectReference();
serviceInstance.Type = "ServiceInstance";
serviceInstance.Value = "ServiceInstance";

SessionManager sm = new SessionManager(vimClient, serviceInstance);
sm.LoginBySSPI(ct_b64, null);

I get an exception when I try to call this method LoginBySSPI

I am not sure that this is the correct approach, but I really would like to be able to login using single signon in my c# code but not having much success.
This works fine using PowerShell but I want to be able to do this directly using c# without using PS Pipelines.

Any suggesstions welcome.

Thanks

Wait for vm clone task - vb.net

DroppedAtBirth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:34 GMT

I have all my clone code working but need to find a way to wait for the clone task to finish. Currently using the Vim25Api to do my cloning but can't get VimServer.WaitForUpdates to wait ont he task but I get an error saying I am not connected... Alot of post on the forum talk about and show using WaitForTask, which is what I have used in vSphere PowerCLI before but I don't see it anywhere in the Vim25api. I do find it in the VMware.Vim api. Anyone have an example of waiting on a clone task using the Vim25api in .net? Or is there another way I should be trying to wait for the task.

Dim cloneTask As ManagedObjectReference = _service.CloneVM_Task(templateRef, vmFolderRef, VMName, cloneSpec)

Thanks

Rob

Writing via SAN

scammeresi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:32:00 GMT

I'm able to read via LAN and SAN using the VDDK. I'm also able to write via LAN. I cannot write via SAN.

The docs are pretty vague on this (by which I mean non-existent), and there is no example code. It's not clear at all what parameters I would use to open the disk for writing since using the SAN requires a snapshot, but shouldn't a snapshot be readonly? What kind of sense would it make to have a snapshot which can be written?

Is writing via SAN even supported?

Mapping disk to drive letter

giladb — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:16:12 GMT

I am running on Linux, and inspecting a Windows disk.
How can my application find out what drive letter the disk is mounted on ?
Is VixMntapi_GetVolumeInfo the right API ?

How to delete privileges registered by extensions?

Andulla — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:53 GMT

Hi,

we registered our plugin with a list of privileges as ExtensionPrivilegeInfo.

After deregistration the list of privilieges are not deleteted and i can find them in the AuthorizationManager inside the privilegeList

Inside the vSphere Client they are shown as XXX.privilege.XXX because of no longer registered Resource Infos.

How can i delete these custom privileges inside the privilegeList of the AuthorizationManager?