create machines by script

[krajcirovic]

Hello,

i want to create virtual machines via script, what i do this simplest?

I use vmware esx 3.5.

Thank you very much, nice day.

[Troy_Clavell]

have you seen this?

http://vmware.com/appliances/directory/1216

[krajcirovic]

Thank you very much, how i install it?

how to import as appliance? it want *.ovf file.

thank you very much, nice day

[TomHowarth · Accepted solution]

I would also investigate teh VC SDK as there are several useful commands in there for provisioning Guests via code.

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator

[mcowger]

The listed appliance will not create VMs, it will allow you to create new physical ESX hosts.

Look at vmcreate.pl in the Perl SDK.

--Matt