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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

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

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,

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

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.

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

Getting NFS datastores
ara548 — Tue, 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.
performance metrics (version 2.5.0)

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

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!

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

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

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!

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
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Level Advanced
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Message was edited by: heyitspablo Corrected date in subject line

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

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

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.

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

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 ?

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?

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

"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

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

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

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...

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>

Error: Server version unavailable at 'https://1.1.1.1/sdk/vimService.wsdl' when connecting to virtual center with connect.pl

likid000 — Wed, 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

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?

Get Context Menue Icons for Plugin?

Rossignol — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:18:35 GMT

Hi all,

just writing an plugin based on perl toolkit to do some scripting in virtual center directly.

Now it is possible to define an Icon for the Plugin in form of Icon small or icon extension.

But this works not for Context Menue entries. Would be so nice if you can define your own plugin icon,

first to differ from virtual center commands and second because there's place for icons as the're used by Vmware for Open Console, Edit Settings or migrate command for example in the VM Context Menue.

Does anybody knew a way to get this work... or is it not possible yet?

Any help would be appreciated...

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.

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.

Implementing the VMWare web services in win apps C#

sid101020203030 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:19 GMT

Hi I am trying to implement the web services that are available at

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/

in C# windows app. Can you pleases help me out.

I sucess fully extracted the WSDL and generated the class file out of it.

Can any one provide me a simpe windows app using the webservices. I tried to understand the samples provided with the download. But confusing to me!

Please help me out.

Thanks a lot!

Need help for communication between ESX host and Guest with VMCI

ankitgovil — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:28:25 GMT

Hi friends,
Can someone suggest a method of carrying out communication between ESX host and Guest using VMCI. We want to implement discovery mechanism for co-located VM.

How to move files from one folder to another folder in datastore

haroon09 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:16:31 GMT

I want to move some files (which aI already got using "HostDatastoreBrowser") from one file system folder to another file system folder (not Managed Object folder).

In VI client we can move files when we are browsing the datastore from one folder to another folder, I want to do the same thing.

Thanks

VDDK Logging

giladb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:04:03 GMT

When calling both VixDiskLib_InitEx and VixMntapi_Init my code provides all three logging functions.
Yet, there are still messages written to standard output, such as

[2009-10-29 11:51:47.209 B763BB30 info 'App'] Current working directory: /mnt/disk2/home/devel/trunk
[2009-10-29 11:26:10.017 B75A3B30 trivia 'SOAP'] Sending soap request to [TCP:10.10.42.200:443]: retrieveContent
[2009-10-29 11:26:10.021 B75A3B30 trivia 'SOAP'] Received soap response from [TCP:10.10.42.200:443]: retrieveContent
[2009-10-29 11:26:10.022 B75A3B30 trivia 'SOAP'] Sending soap request to [TCP:10.10.42.200:443]: GetConfig
[2009-10-29 11:26:10.032 B75A3B30 trivia 'SOAP'] Received soap response from [TCP:10.10.42.200:443]: GetConfig

How can these messages be prevented, or redirected to my own logging functions ?

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?

Java Exception when GetConfigurationByName called for non-existent Configuration

JohnCasebolt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:47 GMT

Hi All -

I'm updating our Java-based application from the LM 2.5.3 API to LM 4 API. I'm using the unsupported API, and leveraging Axis2 for the SOAP work.
When using GetConfigurationByName, all works well as long as the requested Configuration exists in LM.
But, if it doesn't, I get an oddball Axis2/SOAP error (see below).

Anybody else having this problem?
In fact, anybody else still using Java for LM API? Kinda feels like VMware has abandoned all but the Windows/C# crowd.

Thanks,
JC

2009-10-28 15:53:07,518 main ERROR labmanageradapter.LabManagerAdapter - Unknown exception encountered when retrieving configuration
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.exception.OMBuilderException: detail unsupported element in SOAPFault element
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.SOAP12BuilderHelper.handleEvent(SOAP12BuilderHelper.java:175)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.constructNode(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:374)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:212)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createNextOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:191)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:172)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.buildNext(OMElementImpl.java:633)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMNodeImpl.getNextOMSibling(OMNodeImpl.java:141)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.getNextOMSibling(OMElementImpl.java:314)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.traverse.OMChildrenQNameIterator.next(OMChildrenQNameIterator.java:118)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.getFirstChildWithName(OMElementImpl.java:252)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.llom.soap12.SOAP12FaultImpl.getReason(SOAP12FaultImpl.java:143)
at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.initializeValues(AxisFault.java:202)
at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.<init>(AxisFault.java:196)
at org.apache.axis2.util.Utils.getInboundFaultFromMessageContext(Utils.java:512)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:370)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:416)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:228)
at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:163)
at com.vmware.labmanager.VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterfaceStub.GetConfigurationByName(VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterfaceStub.java:4428)
at org.nplace.ci.fap.labmanageradapter.LabManagerAdapter.getConfigurationByName(LabManagerAdapter.java:390)

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

Problem with revertToSnapshot

mic21 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:00:02 GMT

Hi,

When I run the command:

vmrun -T server -h "http_address" -u userHost -p passwordHost revertToSnapshot "file.vmx" snapshot_name

I get the following error:

One of the parameters was not valid.

What can I do? Please Help me!

Thank, mic

Problem with revertToSnapshot

mic21 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:59:56 GMT

Hi,

When I run the command:

vmrun -T server -h "http_address" -u userHost -p passwordHost revertToSnapshot "file.vmx" snapshot_name

I get the following error:

One of the parameters was not valid.

What can I do? Please Help me!

Thank, mic

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

OVF 0.9 with Debian

balous — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:05:08 GMT

Hi,

is it possible to create OVF 0.9 containing Debian? What is the correct ovf:id code?

I am trying to create OVF that imports into vSphere 4 as Debian (which does support Debian) and is still possible to import through VC 2.5 GUI.

Thanks,

Petr.

how to know if session cookie expired for retrieveProperties()

mm6 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:55:57 GMT

retrieveProperties() seems to return null if nothing matches or if the session cookie you send has expired. Other calls such as findByInventoryPath() return a SOAP fault if the session has expired.

How do I tell if the cookie is bad or the property filter spec returned no matches? I'm using this for getting tasks which often there are none of. I'd prefer not to do another call each time to check the session if there is another way.

VA deployment degradation on vSphere4

Lexus16 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:10 GMT

Hello,

We have high performance degradation when our Appliance is deployed to ESX server via Virtual Center. When the appliance is deployed to ESX directly we don’t have such problem.
We are using the following script:

curl -u username:NfelMC2Ub -k -T upload https://10.250.148.27/folder/LR1_11133_ESXAppliance/upload.dat?dcPath=Center&dsName=Storage1

where 10.250.148.27 is the address of Virtual Center. If we specify the address of ESX instead of Virtual Center, everything works fast.
BTW such problem appeared on vSphere 4, on previous versions everything was fine.
Could you please answer:

What could be the reason of this degradation?
How can we tune up the speed of deployment via Virtual Center?
If we have correct credentials on Virtual Center, is it possible to deploy directly to the ESX registered on it?

Thank you

Incompatible Class Change Error

bleschber — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:01:51 GMT

Following the example included with the SDK, I wrote an app to try and connect to VMWare, but I'm getting an error message telling me that I have an Incompatible Class Change Error:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Expected non-static field com.vmware.ws.service.BaseServiceStub._service
at com.vmware.ws.service.BaseServiceStub.<init>(BaseServiceStub.java:119)
at com.vmware.ws.service.BaseServiceStub.<init>(BaseServiceStub.java:108)
at com.vmware.ws.service.BaseServiceStub.<init>(BaseServiceStub.java:159)
at com.vmware.contrib.vi.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:78)

And it has a few more listed. Here is the block of code:

import com.vmware.contrib.vi.Connection;

String uname = jTextField1.getText();
String pass = jTextField2.getText();
String server = jTextField3.getText();
String protocol = jTextField4.getText();

Connection.Parameters config = new Connection.Parameters(
Connection.Protocol.http, server, null, uname, pass, null);

try{

Connection con = new Connection(config);

}catch(com.vmware.vi.fault.InvalidLogin e)
{

}catch(com.vmware.vi.fault.InvalidLocale f)
{

}

And it's the line Connection con = new Connection(config) which causes the problem. Debugging, I found that everything else works fine and I get legit login information (server, protocol, etc.) Once it gets to that line, it causes the error.

Anyone have a clue why I'm getting the error and/or what "com.vmware.ws.service.BaseServiceStub._service" is?

Thanks!

can't mount remote vmdk

kinc — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:37:37 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to use vmware-mount to remotely mount a vmdk on our ESX 4 server,
but can't seem to be able to:

bash-3.2# vmware-mount -h esx -u root -F /root/infoblox 'Storage1Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmdk' /tmp/vmdk
Failed to open disk: Unknown error (1)
Failed to mount disk 'Storage1Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmdk': Cannot open the virtual disk
bash-3.2# vmware-mount -h esx -u root -F /root/infoblox 'Storage1VMware Studio/VMware Studio.vmdk' /tmp/vmdk
Failed to open disk: Unknown error (1)
Failed to mount disk 'Storage1VMware Studio/VMware Studio.vmdk': Cannot open the virtual disk
bash-3.2# vmware-mount -h esx -u root -F /root/infoblox 'Storage1rsp-esx.vmdk' /tmp/vmdk
Failed to open disk: Unknown error (1)
Failed to mount disk 'Storage1rsp-esx.vmdk': Cannot open the virtual disk
bash-3.2#

On our ESX server, the name of the datastore is Storage1, and I can see the
vmdk's there:

~~root@localhost /~~# find /vmfs/volumes/ | grep vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/esxconsole-4ad3c62b-d3d4-4d04-a6f9-00304834fd8a/esxconsole-flat.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/esxconsole-4ad3c62b-d3d4-4d04-a6f9-00304834fd8a/esxconsole.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/Ubuntu/Ubuntu-flat.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/VMware Studio/VMware Studio-flat.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/VMware Studio/VMware Studio.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/rsp-esx-flat.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/4ad3c6c2-bdf33934-0aaf-00304834fd8a/rsp-esx.vmdk
~~root@localhost /~~#

This is the vmware-mount I used:

bash-3.2# vmware-mount -v
vmware-mount: option requires an argument -- 'v'
VMware DiskMount Utility version 2.0.1, build-156745
...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Kin

Use of Event.getKey() and Event.getChainId()

thomasjulian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:45:57 GMT

1.What is the difference between Event properties key and chainid?

Almost all of the events i received have the same key and chain id.What is the use of ChainId property.

2.The property key is of data type Integer.Is it capable of
holding large values.(<code>(java)-2147483648 to
</code><code>2147483647</code>).

The Event's key property is increasing for every session
login,logout.If this continues it will soon reach 2147483647.Then what
will be the Key value for the next event?

Thanks.

Multiple threads created by VDDK

giladb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:36 GMT

I have a single threaded Linux application that uses VDDK.
While trying to connect to a virtual disk, ps shows that I have two additional threads (or processes), probably created by VDDK.
What are these additional threads ?
Is this behavior documented ?

Deploy OVF template with monolithicFlat VMDKs

NarayanVenkat — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:51:48 GMT

I am currently trying to deploy a OVF template that points to a VMDK of createType=monolithicFlat. At the time of deployment I get an error ..

Failed to deploy OVF package: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error

There are other posts in this forum that point to incorrect sizes in the OVF file as one of the potential issues. But none of these seem to correspond to VMDKs of monolithicFlat type. I have listed below the References and DiskSection of my OVF file and VMDK file descriptor. I will appreciate it if someone can point out potential errors.

<References>
<File ovf:href="disk.vmdk" ovf:id="Disk" ovf:size="1073741824"/>
</References>

<DiskSection>
<Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
<Disk ovf:diskId="Disk" ovf:fileRef="Disk"
ovf:capacity="1073741824" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte"
ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" />
</DiskSection>

# cat disk.vmdk

# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=67632d29
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"

# Extent description
RW 2097152 FLAT "disk-flat.vmdk" 0

# The Disk Data Base
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "2080"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"

Thanks

Plans for generic SOAP support within workflows?

philsttr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:26:04 GMT

Hi,

Are there any plans to add generic SOAP support into VMO (so that SOAP operations can be called from workflows)?

By "generic SOAP support", I mean things such as

Importing a WSDL
Having the types exposed by the XML schemas used by the WSDL automatically exposed as types / scriptable objects in VMO
Perhaps having a "SOAP operation" task to invoke a soap operation as part of a workflow.
Perhaps having the interface defined by the WSDL exposed as a scriptable object in VMO (so that operations can be invoked via javascript)

--Phil

Flex Applications and Client Plug-ins

dcap — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:02:13 GMT

I sat in the ConfigControl presentation at VMworld and they mentioned the UI will be built in Flex. Will applications built in Flex be supported as part of the client plug-in framework?

CACHE.XML

LeeTheMC — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:04:13 GMT

I recently ran into a problem on two identical hosts where a plug-in that I am developing appeared as "Disabled" in the plug-in manager. Prior to this day, the plug-in has been working without any issues. When the user attempted to "Enable" the plug-in, it had no effect. The plug-in just stayed as "disabled."

I tried a number of different tweaks to get this working and I eventually found the file, C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\VMware\vpx\PluginCache\cache.xml. Once I deleted this file and re-loaded vSphere Client, the plug-in was enabled again. Upon exit of vSphere Client, this file was recreated again.

Can anyone describe the use of this file? Any insight into why it might force my plug-in to be disabled?

VMware Virtualized Hardware Hotel

heyitspablo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:35:58 GMT

The catchiest music video on the benefits of VMware virtualization technology you'll probably ever hear! "What if the server goes down?" Great Job !
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JBYJHQmJc{youtube}

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Features

heyitspablo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:33:12 GMT

Learn about the new features in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0
Maria Basmanova Sr Member of Technical Staff VMWare describes new features.
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIa_eknXKwk{youtube}

Example on usage of TaskHistoryCollector using ZSI and Python

rpapiset — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:45:17 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use pyton with ZSI to retreive task using taskhistorycollector. Can some one post if you have any example using Python and ZSI with filter.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Ravi Kumar P.

OVF imports but gives disk error on power-on

aandriolli — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:27:17 GMT

Fellows,

We just imported an .ova file using the vSphere Client GUI
successfully. But when we try to power on the VM, the VM console only shows
"A disk error" and nothing else. This is a time-sensitive production
pilot and does not look good!

Anyone experienced this before? Couldn't find anything on
the topic.

The .ova was created using the same version of vCenter at
another site.

thanks

Console of vSphere Client in C#

k.malek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:35:07 GMT

Hello all,

First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong forum, but it looked as the best out there to ask this question.

I tried to find a solution to my "problem" for quite a while now, but no luck.

So here it is....

I'm writing a custom C# windows forms application and I was wondering if it is possible to somehow open the vSphere Client's Console programmatically from within C# .

I'm using ESXi 4.

This application is just for an internal use in the company I work for, so just to clarify, I'm not trying to develop some commercial software.

In previous version of this app I used to open the entire client, but people who use it don't like to click all over the place to get to the console, hence my question.

I have looked into few APIs, but I either don't know which one to use or I couldn't find proper methods.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chris

Create vm privileges

idanmnr — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:50:06 GMT

using the SDK, how can I find out if a user has priveleges to create a vm?

thanks

idan

SISTEMISTI SENIOR WINDOWS / WMWARE

GeRiKoOnE — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:05:05 GMT

Salve a tutti!

Si ricercano urgentemente due Sistemisti Senior Windows / Wmware per l'area di Verona.

Durata del contratto: un anno.

Gli interessati sono pregati di mandare il Curriculum Vitae a job@adfor.it specificando in oggetto "Candidatura Sistemista Vmware".

Grazie e a presto.

"certificate is required" or terrible exception

DannyUtro — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:57 GMT

Hello everybody!

Sorry for my english. I get stuck with error while running .NET sample "CIMInfo" - "A certificate is required to complete client authentication" at this line code:

"IWSManEnumerator enumeratorFans = (IWSManEnumerator)
session.Enumerate(urlString,
null, null, wsman.SessionFlagUseBasic() &
wsman.SessionFlagCredUsernamePassword() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCACheck() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCNCheck());"

How to install this certificate? I try to install via IE over https://my-esx, but it doesn't installing at "Trusted Root certification Authorities". Any tricks?

Thanks in advance.

Problem in Esx 3i virtual host network card speed.

sachitha — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:24:10 GMT

Hi All,

I have installed Esx 3i on a Dell PC which has 1Gbp network card and I have installed two Windows 2003 Std virtual hosts. Every virtual server show the network interface with 10 Mbps. So how can i increase the speed of each interface. Pls help.

Regs,

Sachitha Wimalaratne.

VDDK Implementation Difficulty Question

RColbert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:46:31 GMT

One of the new features of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 is the ability to create/mount/manage VHDs from the host's LDM.

My question is how difficult would something like this be to implement using VDDK 1.1?

Any ideas on difficulty would be appreciated.

vStorage API for Multi-pathing

doubin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:33:50 GMT

the vStorage API for Multi-pathing, where can i get it from?
The TAP level partner is enough?
If i am a TAP partner, how can i get those API?

Thanks!

encrypt password

jmyerholtz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:31:47 GMT

I am wondering if anyone has any idea on how to encrypt passwords in a powercli script. I am creating a script that is checking for compliance and then alerting on non-compliant vms. The script has a requirement of running as a scheduled task every night with no interaction. I can do this by specifying the vc password. but, rightfully so, security is stating the password must be encrypted, or the script needs to be complied, it cannot be in clear text. does anyone have any ideas?

When will OVF support disk reference paths and not embed disk data into mgiration file?

Schorschi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:12 GMT

When moving VMs from RHEV, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware, which many are doing today, OVF makes sense as a starting point, however, OVF is very ineffecient if the given VMs already have virtual disks in the correct location. For example, moving VMs from VMware to KVM, and from KVM to VMware, since KVM supports VMDK as does VMware, and both could and can access the same datastore/NFS mount point, the encode/decode of the virtual machine disks in OVF is not needed, just use a reference path to the VM disks, not the actual data. So the question is, When will OVF support disk reference paths and not embed disk data into mgiration file? Interesting feature no?

Gathering details of all DataStores

ChaitanyaS — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:10 GMT

hi,

Is it possible to gather details of all the datastores using web services?

In my client application. i want to keep details of all available data stores in my database.

Can one virtula machine use many disks? ( As per my knowledge, one disk can be shared by multiple virtual machines., Am i right?)

(I've referred to DataStore managed object from the documentation. What i understand is data store is independent of hosts (ESX servers) and the virtual machines. Many hosts can connect to one data store. Similarly one data store can have many virtual disks i.e. virtual machines. )

vCenter Orchestrator APIs Part 1

heyitspablo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:01:28 GMT

Video from Technology Exchange Developer Day Session - Total time is 58 minutes - (Audio is not the best quality)

Complete Video Here: http://vmweb.vmware.com/vmworld/2009/techexchange/DE01.html

Part 1 - 9 Minutes
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDhlx8vpYc{youtube}

unable to copy file from host to guestVM - "Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS"

zeevik — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:41:14 GMT

I'm trying to copy a file from an ESX host to a linuxVM running on it

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h https://10.55.1.16/sdk -u root -p *** -gu user -gp *** copyFileFromHostToGuest "QA-NAS-01 VM/vm.vmx" /root/file /root/file

the command returns "Error: Invalid user name or password for the guest OS"

opening the console of that machine, I'm able to login with user/*** to the linux shell (linux VM, which has no SSH access)

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Zeevik

Problem with rdmCreate.pl

ii00907 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:42:57 GMT

Hi,

i have a problem with Perl Script rdmCreate.pl.

If I create a new disk rdm puntanto all 'esx4, the disc that I am going to add it correctly deal. This is the command;

~~root@ITRMVSC1 vm~~# perl rdmCreate.pl --url https://172.33.22.111/sdk/vimService --username MYUSER --password MYPSW --vmname VM1 --filename Test.vmdk --backingtype rdm

Adding Virtual Disk on Virtual machine VM1 in the host esxhost.it.domain.com with file name Test.vmdk

env browser

*****
ARRAY(0x1fe9eb90)
*****

*****
number of present disks is 2
*****
ITRMVSC Disk[0]: Capacity /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11
cannonical_name: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11VM1 Disk[1]: Capacity /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00506decc0459cde11
cannonical_name: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11
calling the reconfigure VM

returned from reconfigure VM
Virtual Disk created.

but when I try to point the Virtual Center back to me the following error;

perl rdmCreate.pl --url https://172.55.22.444/sdk/webService --username administrator --password MYPSW --vmname VM1 --filename Test.vmdk --backingtype rdm

Adding Virtual Disk on Virtual machine ITRMVSC in the host 172.33.22.111 with file name Test.vmdk
env browser

*****
ARRAY(0xb5a20d0)
*****

*****
number of present disks is 2
*****
ITRMVSC Disk[0]: Capacity /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11
cannonical_name: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11ITRMVSC Disk[1]: Capacity /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00506decc0459cde11
cannonical_name: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6006016055351f00516decc0459cde11
calling the reconfigure VM
Error trapped
SOAP Fault:

Fault string: Invalid datastore path 'Test.vmdk'.
Fault detail: InvalidDatastorePathFalut :
SOAP Fault:

Fault string: Invalid datastore path 'Test.vmdk'.

My version ESX : VMware ESX 4.0.0 build-164009

My version Vsphere : VMware vCenter Server Version 4.0.0 Build 162856

vSpher CLI Version : VMware vSphere CLI 4.0.0-161974.x86_64

Please help me.

Attached the script I use

Web service address

alatariel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:22:10 GMT

hi everybody, i need to know the meaning of "Web service address", and how to install it (web services) in virtual center 4

(it's part of the installation of VC 4 ???? )

Thank you

Set permission on a particular datastore on ESXi

Dexxt0r — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:08:12 GMT

Hi all,

I'm developping an application using vSphere SDK for Perl. But i'm struggling with the following problem:

Let's say we have 2 users: A and B. Both have accounts on ESXi. Each user is assigned his own datastore.

When A connects to ESXi by VI Client to upload files to his datastore, he can browse B's datastore and even delete B's files.

What i want is that A can browse only his own datastore.

Anyone have ideas how to do it by using vSphere SDK? Please help!

Best regards,

Anh-Tu

Developing a Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using xcode

cookieme — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:21 GMT

Hi

I'm not a programmer, but I'm curious about the procedure for developing a native Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using Apple's developer tools (xcode). Is this possible and what VMware development tools are required as I see that there is both a web services sdk and a perl sdk?

If anyone has any experience of developing for the Mac/ iPhone platforms with regards to VMware vSphere I would be very interested in any pointers.

Thanks

P.S. Please move this post if I've posted in the wrong developer community.

can't connect virtual nic to distributed virtual port group

mm6 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:59:31 GMT

I'm trying to connect a virtual nic on a vm to a distributed virtual port group. I have tried every set of options to the nic config spec I can think of.

For any VM I create using the API, in vSphere Client when you right click the VM, edit settings, select the network adapter, the network label dropdown is set to empty. When I pick the correct network from the dropdown the nic in the VM works.

The sample code seems to say that all you need to do is setDeviceName on the nic backing to one of the names in the network label dropdown in vSphere client.

Have tried:

backing.setNetwork to a reference to the network

using VirtualEthernetCardDistrbibutedVirtualPortBackingInfo instead of VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo

using nic.setDeviceInfo() and setting label and summary to the name of the network

I just need to know what to set to populate this dropdown so the nic works without manually setting the network label in the gui.

Lab Manager plug-in for VMware Orchestrator?

AlexeyBykov — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:48:34 GMT

Is Lab Manager plug-in for VMware Orchestrator available?

If not, please, suggest a simplest way to integrate Lab Manager to VMware Orchestrator.

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

vix 1.7 installer crashes

JonathanHansen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:48:32 GMT

I am trying to resolve this issue and it has me baffled.

The installer gets to the EULA, I hit enter to begin installing and it just dies. No error message, no indication it did anything, just exits.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Cloud Provider API??

jx — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:03:36 GMT

All,
I am not sure whether I got the subject line meaningful. I am new to cloud APIs and vCloud - but I understand virtualization. Apparently I don't have vCloud Express to I have no hands on experience. So I am trying to understand some basic concepts + to make sure my understanding so far is on track.

As far as I know
1) vCloud and vCloud Express are built on vSphere - which is built on vCenter/ESX
2) Cloud APIs are designed for the end customer (a tenant in the cloud) to manage their own environment

My question is Will vCenter SDK calls will work on vCloud as well? Or are there special APIs for vCloud? The reason why I used the term "Provider API" is because the Cloud provider will have an entirely different view of the cloud. So vmware should provide special API's to expose those views.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks
~jx

Programmatically Connecting/Disconnecting Removable Devices using VIX API?

julzen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:10:17 GMT

Is it somehow possible to connect/disconnect removable devices using the VIX API?

Or is there another mechanism how I might archieve that using my own tool/script?

Thanks

c# code needed to list plugins in extension manager!

rickyelqasem — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:59:07 GMT

Can you help me? I need code to list and unregister plugins in the extension manager.

Ricky El-Qasem

VCI/VCP - MCSE - RHCT

VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION error

sarahi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:29:38 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to run a script in a 64-bit Windows 7 VM usingthe vmrun command line tool (1.6.0.2073) and the following options:

vmrun -T ws -gu user -gp passwordrunProgramInHost "C:\vms\W7.vmx" -interactive "C:\test\test.cmd"

and i get the following error:

Error: Service type VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION was specified, but not installed

Can anyone help me with this error, it would be most appreciated!

Thanks

Updated vCenter, now perl scripts get SOAP error "500 EOF when chunk header expected"

david_drew — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:28 GMT

We've got some reporting scripts that do a number of things, generate alerts and save performance info, etc. vCenter was upgraded this weekend and all of the scripts are failing--occasionally--with this error. At least one of the scripts is pretty light, it doesn't pull that much information, though it does it for hundreds of VMs.

This is using VI Perl 1.6.

Any help would be appreciated.

-David

there is a way to obtain, CPU and Memory usage from the virtual Machine

ghosther — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:25:56 GMT

there is a way to obtain, CPU and Memory usage from the virtual Machine usink Vix Api.

Regards.

I'm using C# wrapper.

Vmware Data Recovery API

Bartmosss — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:51:44 GMT

Hi!

Is there any API for Data Recovery? One of my project, I would like to do is to add email notification for failed backup?

MCP, A+, Network+, Linux+, VSP, VTSP, VCP

Blog post on VMware vDistributed Switch By Antone Heyward

heyitspablo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:52:54 GMT

Thought I would share with the vNetwork community - theHyperadvisor by Antone Heyward has a nice article on vDS, nice video as well. Too bad its not on youtube or else I would have embedded,, here is a link. http://thehyperadvisor.com/?p=398

thanks

Roll your own VMware ESXi Server and more - Hak5 (fun getting started video)

heyitspablo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:02:08 GMT

Interesting random video on how to install ESXi - VMware install section start at 10:43
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l05hOf4YgMM{youtube}

error (501) not implemented

dmitrif — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:08:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to access the WBEM service of the CIMOM on the ESX Server 3i and all my requests end up with this error "(501) not implemented".

What is it?

I use wbemsharp (http://code.google.com/p/wbemtools/wiki/Intro) for my client and the connection is over HTTPS.

Thanks in advance

vprobes status

fixitchris — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:06:01 GMT

Has there been any advancements in vprobes? Any cool, new things to show us?

VMware Coffee Talk - October 7th Wed 9:00 AM PST - vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

heyitspablo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:49:32 GMT

Session Title: vSphere APIs for Perfomance Monitoring
Session Abstract:
Understand the features available to developers via vSphere Web Services APIs to
collect performance statistics and discuss best practices in collecting performance
data when using these APIs. This presentation is a must-attend for any developer
that retrieves performance information from the vSphere platform in any large environment.
While the content is advanced, developers new to the platform will find it useful.
Web Ex Link
MP3 Link
Level: Advanced
Speakers:
Ravi Soundararajan
Staff Engineer Performance Team
Balaji Parimi
Ecosytem Engineering
Message was edited by: heyitspablo - Added Web Ex Link

ShutDown / PowerOn VMs

EXPRESS — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:05:50 GMT

Hi All,

I like that. How can I apply that so it can work for me? I am not a programmer or developer so that should tell you that I don't know much about scripting, but I think I can play around with it enough to get it going. What I would like to do is a weekly ShutDown then a PowerOn afterwards. Any chance you guys can help me with this? Any help would be appreciated. The way I am doing it right now which is so time consuming is to setup a schedule task for each VM via Virtual Center for ShutDown then again for PowerOn. I just would like to simplify this as much as possible.

I just want to add that we are on an ESX 3.5.0 server and 2.5 VC.

"I posted the this to one of the forums, but I noticed that that forum had been answered already and I did not know if I should just create a new discussion. Sry if I shouldn't have.."

Again any help will be appreciated.

Thank you,
Express

URGENT ---- Connection time out with Virtual Center

pietroC — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:15:12 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to connect to virtual center (v 2.5) to obtain real time performance for my virtual machines, but i've this error:

_svcRef===>>> ServiceInstance

Caught Exception : Exception : org.apache.axis.AxisFault Message : ; nested exception is:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect StackTrace :

AxisFault

i've used the same code to obtain the same performance from an other VC (v 2.5) and all work good.

could someone give me some information about this error.

attached two different cases.

tks

ESX server support provided by VI SDK 4

newsharon86 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:51:25 GMT

I was a bit confused to what versions of ESX servers are supported by Vi SDK 4.

also if it supports ESX 1.8

If not who supports esx 1.8

When connecting to a VC in my test/prod environment SSPI login fails, but works in my development environment.

Leafy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:30:57 GMT

I'm using the VSphere Web Services SDK and develop in Visual Studio 2008 using C#. I'm also using IIS v6.0 to host the web application.

The application I have developed retreives all virtual machines on a given virtual center and displays summary information about each virtual machine in a datagrid. When a grid row is clicked, a page opens and displays detailed information about that virtual machine.

To connect to a virtual center, I use SSPI (required a lot of research and trial and error) and this works great in my development environment using the debug functionality of Visual Studio 2008. However when I move the application to the test environment, SSPI stops working.

I'm not sure if the issue is on the SDK side or on the IIS side.

Has anyone here implemented something similar? or can anyone shed some light on something I may be over looking?

Thanks!

HostNumericSensorInfo collection - does not work!

dmitrif — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:13:31 GMT

Hi all,

What would you say is persistent (can be used as an unique key) in the HostNumericSensorInfo collection (at HostSystem.runtime.healthSystemRuntime.systemHealthInfo.numericSensorInfo) during a session?

Size of the collection? Indexes of sensors? Sensor names?

I have a serious doubts about the only property that comes to mind (HostNumericSensorInfo.name) as it looks like it's being concatenated from an actual sensor name and its status: "System Board 1 FAN MOD 4D RPM - Normal", "Power Supply 2: Running/Full Power-Enabled", "Disk Drive Bay 1 Cable SAS A 0: Config Error - Deassert" etc (a very strange way to name something if you ask me).

Thanks in advance.

What is Onyx ?

heyitspablo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:58:19 GMT

Onyx generates code to help you solve your toughest automation challenges, demo from VMworld 2009 by Carter Shanklin
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ab_tMI2a8Y{youtube}

Create super user on ESX/ESXi

tanishsr — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:00:01 GMT

Hi,

Using " useradd -o -u 0 TestUser " , I am able to create a user with Uid 0 ( which is same as root Uid). I want to implement same functionality using web services sdk.

Here is the code using to create root user :

szNewUsername = "TestUser";
szNewPassword = "TestUserPassword";

ServiceContent sic = new ServiceContent();
sic = oVimWrapper.GetServiceContent();
VimService service = oVimWrapper.GetVimService();
ManagedObjectReference root = oVimWrapper.GetRootFolder();
ManagedObjectReference morAccManager = sic.accountManager;
ManagedObjectReference morAuthManager = sic.authorizationManager;

if (morAccManager == null || morAuthManager == null)
{
return false;
}

HostPosixAccountSpec hostAccountSpec = new HostPosixAccountSpec();
hostAccountSpec.posixId = 0;
hostAccountSpec.posixIdSpecified = true;
hostAccountSpec.id = szNewUsername;
hostAccountSpec.password = szNewPassword;
hostAccountSpec.shellAccess = true;
hostAccountSpec.shellAccessSpecified = true;

try
{

service.CreateUser(morAccManager, hostAccountSpec);

service.AssignUserToGroup(morAccManager, szNewUsername, "root");
Permission per = new Permission();
per.group = false;
per.principal = szNewUsername;
per.roleId = -1;
per.propagate = true;
per.entity = sic.rootFolder;

service.SetEntityPermissions(morAuthManager, root, new Permission[] { per });

}

catch (System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException se)
{
MessageBox.Show(se.Message);
}

On executing the code its throwing an exception " The specified key, name, or identifier already exists. " . If I commented out the posixid line then it works, creates TestUser ( Uid is different, not 0 , requirement is : TestUser Uid = 0 ). Is it possible to create user with uid = 0 using api?

-regards,
Tanish

support of moref in http request url to get the VM files

yvsvmware — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:50 GMT

For getting the VM files we need to formulate the httpurl in the form of

example - httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname?dcPath=ha-datacenter/&dsName=Storage is used for listing the folder.

and example httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname/vmname.vmx?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=LocalStorage is used for getting the vmx file.

Here We need to form the vm specification like ?dcPath=dataCenter&dsName=dataStoreName which will be recognised as a http resource. As of now vm specification is not supported in moref form (like: "moref=24")

will this be supported in future releases?. otherwise its good-to have if moref is also supported.

Thanks

Yvs

Demo of OVF Template Deployment in vSphere 4

heyitspablo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:17:10 GMT

Nice Demo of an OVF Template Deployment in vSphere
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob3UVPlI7mE{youtube}

Clone a Virtual Machine In VMware ESX Server

heyitspablo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:15:10 GMT

Nice video showing you how to clone a VM
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQ0zQC5DX0{youtube}

http://www.trainsignal.com/

Running VMware View / RDP sessions on your iPhone with the wyse Pocket Cloud client

heyitspablo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:12:10 GMT

Really cool demo running an RDP session from your iPhone
{youtube}http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ24A5kE6XM{youtube}