Hmm, the book suggests the VMperl API.
But when I go to down load it, I see it's a deprecated, legacy API.
The currently supported stuff looks way more complicated than what I really need.
So let's try the legacy stuff. Hmm, the download pages are broken. Wonder they are
just broken, or if VMware is just deprecating them a bit more forcefully.
All I need to do execute a couple shell commands from a client on another box.
Here are perl scripts for running on the ESX box that do what I need.
\# setup global values, etc.
...
\# subroutine to create VMDK virtual disk file
sub createdisk {
$cr = "vmkfstools -c " . $vmdisk . "g " . " $vmpath". $vmname . ".vmdk -a lsilogic";
system("$cr");
};
\# Subroutine to register VM with ESX Server
sub registervm {
$rg = "vmware-cmd -s register $vmpath" . $vmname . ".vmx";
system("$rg");
};
That perl code is ugly. There's probably a cleaner way to handle the substitution
and quoting in perl. My copy of Learning Perl is hiding.
I'd probably have to read a couple hundred pages of documentation to figure out
to do this with the new tools. But maybe there's just a couple pages I really need
to read.
Whatever I end up with I'd like to a python wrapper around it so I never have
to look at it again.
