Segmentation Fault in creating clone.

[VivekDhayalan]

Hi all I am very new to VIX API, I wanted to create a clone of an existing machine. but I am getting error(Segmentation fault) while creating clone. Could any one of you help me regarding this.

Please find the code that I used :

use VMware::Vix::Simple;

use VMware::Vix::API::Constants;

my $err = VIX_OK;

my $hostHandle = VIX_INVALID_HANDLE;

($err, $hostHandle) = HostConnect(VIX_API_VERSION,

VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION,

undef, # hostName

0, #port number

"root", # userName

"root123", # password

0, # options

VIX_INVALID_HANDLE); # propertyListHandle

die "HostConnect() failed, $err ", GetErrorText($err), "\n" if $err != VIX_OK;

($err, $vmHandle) = VMOpen($hostHandle,"//apps//Images//BaseImage//BaseImage.vmx");

die "VMOpen() failed, $err ", GetErrorText($err), "\n" if $err != VIX_OK;

($err, $cloneHandle) = VMClone($vmHandle,

"Snapshot_1",

VIX_CLONETYPE_LINKED,

"//apps//Images//Clone_1//Clone_1.vmx",

0, # options

VIX_INVALID_HANDLE); # propertyListHandle

die "VMClone() failed, $err ", GetErrorText($err), "\n" if $err != VIX_OK;

HostDisconnect($hostHandle);

[lemke]

The second argument to VM<Clone() is a handle to a snapshot, not a string value.

It looks like you want to use VMGetNamedSnapshot($mvHandle, "Snapshot_1") first to get the snapshot handle and pass that in.

[VivekDhayalan]

Hi lemke,

I triedcode after changing as per your directions but, still I get segmentation fault.

Now my code looks like following:

$name="Snapshot_1";

($err, $snapshotHandle) = VMGetNamedSnapshot($vmHandle,$name);

($err, $cloneHandle) = VMClone($vmHandle,

$snapshotHandle,

VIX_CLONETYPE_LINKED,

"//apps//Images//NIS09_6//NISO9_6.vmx",

0, # options

VIX_INVALID_HANDLE); # propertyListHandle

I am also attaching the scree shot of Vm image. and the error.

[admin]

What happens if you use single forward slashes instead of two?

[lemke]

I tried that -- no problems.

[lemke]

I've been unable to repro the crash, throwing all sorts of parameters at things in case you have a bug I don't see.

I do get various errors, but those were all in expected cases (bad snapshot names, VM power states, etc).

You should also probably turn on perl warnings (at least use perl -w); that would have caught the string vs handle issue in your original code.

One thing I can't quickly try and may be involved is the version of the VM. I'm testing with WS 6.5 created VMs, and from the screenshot, your's is from 5.x . Can you try it with a new VM and see if it passes?

Also, just to be sure, what version of Vix are you using?

[VivekDhayalan]

I tried using single forward slash but, still I am gettiing the same error. let me try it out in 6.x version vm as lemke said.