Re: how to add a floppy to a VM via CLI?

ewuyica · ‎12-04-2009

Hi,

Try to automate deployment of a vm with rCli scripts. Need to mount a floppy to the vm. So vm can read the configuration data from there. But how to mount the floppy to a vm via cli? I don't have root access to the vm.

Thanks

lamw · ‎12-04-2009

Is the floppy image located in one of your datastores or are these the *.flp images provided by VMware? The latter might be slightly difficult to get working but if it's in one of the datastore then the code should be pretty straight forward.

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ewuyica · ‎12-07-2009

Hi,

The floppy image locates in one of the datastore. But I still don't know how to mount that to the vm guest though.

Thanks

lamw · ‎12-07-2009

It's actually not too difficult, just need to understand how to access the right device and reconfigure the VM using the write function/objects.

Take a look at this script that I wrote to help with this:

I would suggest if you're new to VMware API/SDKs, take some time to go over this document: , this should give you a good foundation on how to work with the various API/SDKs and if you have any other questions, feel free to create a new thread.