Orchestrator and vix plugin

[Nikko26]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get Vix plugin working with Orchestrator 4.2.1

I've installed the dll and set the path variable to the folder containing these files.

I installed the plugin and restart the Orchestrator service.

When I try to launch the config workflow, it just hangs throwing an error to server.log :

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'vix': The specified module could not be found.

Any idea on what I missed or did wrong ? (I'm running on Windows 2008).

Thanks for you answers

[Burke-]

Usually, this is from people NOT reading the instructions - unzipping the zip file and pointing their path to the location they unzipped the files... however, you sate that you've done this.. the next thing to try is putting the files in a shorter path. If your PATH is too long, sometimes the last thing in the path doesn't get read in properly. Try shortening the path to your VIX files by placing them in c:\vix or another VERY Short path like that and update your PATH variable accordingly.

[Nikko26]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

I have tried to copy the files in c:\vix and adding this to the path variable, but still the same error.

When restarting the service, I can see ERROR [SDKDatasource] Invalid IPluginAdaptor version for plug-in 'vix'.

Did you get this plugin working with vco 4.2.1 ?

[Burke-]

No, I have not tried with 4.2.1 as I have had no need to. vSphere 5 has Guest Operations available in it and we'll soon have library workflows to utilize those features. There are a few threads here in the communities that discuss those - can't remember them right now though.

It seems this second message is a little different than the first you posted.. the first, vCO couldn't find the library... now it looks like it finds it but thinks there is an invalid iPluginAdapter version... The vix libraries you are referencing, they are from the zip file that you downloaded along with the vix plugin dar file from http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vix-vco , right?

[KiwiDave]

I can confirm on 4.2.1 and using VIX plugin. Granted, I upgraded from 4.2.0 but should still be the same.

[Nikko26]

Hi Burke,

Yes, I took the vix libraries from http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vix-vco.

I also tried to uninstall / install the plugin from scratch and it's still not working

[mobcdi]

I installed the vix plugin on a new install of vCO 4.2 and was able to run the configuration workflow. The thing that was strange to me was the vix plugin zip file itself contained zip files so i had to extract 1 again to the vCO server and set the path in environment variables before installing the plugin via vCO config webUI then restarted the vCO service to complete the install and then ran the initial config workflow for vix.

Edit: Looks like vix doesn't work with vSphere 5 objects and there is a package available that uses the guest api to perform the same actions as vix but for vSphere http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19918