pomattic
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‎08-13-2008 08:53 AM

cloneVM_Task() over datastores and folders

Cloning always seems to cause problems for me.

Some questions I would like to pose to the community. I will continue to work on them in an attempt to solve them , but any help would be appreciated since I lack experience in this area.

Scenario:

(ESX 3.5 VI-Java SDK)

(Let's say) I have two datastores. The datastores, when viewed with the Datastore Browser have folders within them. These folders have VMs in them. (example. \[DS1\] folder/ folderWithVms/ vm.vmx)

Now what I want to be able to do is when cloning a VM to be able to specify what folder, on which Datastore it is going to be on.

I seem not to be able to do this.

And so I noticed the VirtualMachineRelocateSpec. Looking at it's params though it does not seem to go any lower then the datastore in terms of location.

The cloneVM_Task itself takes a Folder. Currently I am passing in the vmFolder. Is this where I should be passing in a more specific folder to the location where the VM is to go. If so how do I get a MOR to the folder from a datastore path?

Of course I may be way off in what I am trying to do.

Here is a snippet of code, that is used for cloning by me, currently the destination is the same as the source.

//baseRef previously set mor to machine to clone

//vmFolder previously set mor to vmFolder of Datacenter

//clone String name of clone

VirtualMachineCloneSpec vmcs = new VirtualMachineCloneSpec();

VirtualMachineRelocateSpec vmrs = new VirtualMachineRelocateSpec();

vmcs.setLocation(vmrs);

vmcs.setPowerOn(false);

vmcs.setTemplate(false);

ManagedObjectReference ref = connexion.cloneVM_Task(baseRef, vmFolder, clone, vmcs);

Any help would be appreciated.

M@

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