How can I access meta-data of a VM, from within the VM itself?

[nirmalfdo]

Hi All,

Any idea about the $subject? Is there an URL, from which I could retrieve the meta-data ?

[rbudavari]

Use Custom properties rather than Metadata if you want to retreive this information from within the VM Guest OS (using VMTools)

[nirmalfdo]

Hi,

Would you mind explaning the command I should use to retrieve custom properties within the VM?

Thanks a lot.

[rbudavari]

The following reference should help:

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/06/leveraging-vapp-vm-custom-properties-in-vcloud-director.html

[nirmalfdo]

Thanks.

[nirmalfdo]

Anyway, shouldn't there's away to retrieve metadata from within the VM itself?