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Does VIX API support cloning in ESXi or vCenter?

Hi.

I have instances of ESXi host and vCenter.  I installed VIX API package on my Ubuntu 16.04 and tried to clone a VM. To do it i used the sample from documentation (VIX API Reference Documentation).
Unfortunately, running the code causes this message after executing the code below:
"The operation is not supported for the specified parameters"

My code is

jobHandle = VixVM_Clone(vmHandle,

                        VIX_INVALID_HANDLE,

                        VIX_CLONETYPE_FULL,

                      "[datastore1] mytemp-21_linked/mytemp-21_linked.vmx",

                        0,

                        VIX_INVALID_HANDLE,

                        NULL, 

                        NULL);

What's wrong with it?
The same situation for VIX_CLONETYPE_LINKED for both ESXi and vCenter instances.

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