/i is the inventory path of the vm. Also the disk path should include the datastore name like "[storage2] yourvm/harddisk1.vmdk" The attached picture should clarify the above - it shows a...
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/i is the inventory path of the vm. Also the disk path should include the datastore name like "[storage2] yourvm/harddisk1.vmdk" The attached picture should clarify the above - it shows an example with VC - Note the vm after the datacenter name. For ESX, it is similar, but the datacenter name is always ha-datacenter. So the path would look like ha-datacenter/vm/ Thanks Sudarsan
I'd like to mount a vmdk on an ESX 3.5 and try something like vmware-mount.exe Q: /h:10.0.0.35 /u:root /s:password /i: ???? xp-sp2.vmdk How do I specify /i ? What does Unable to get a...
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I'd like to mount a vmdk on an ESX 3.5 and try something like vmware-mount.exe Q: /h:10.0.0.35 /u:root /s:password /i: ???? xp-sp2.vmdk How do I specify /i ? What does Unable to get a Vim ticket for this virtual machine mean ? ___________________________________ description of vmx-parameters: VMware-liveCD:
Thank's for your reply,i will try out today like what you suggested,here my goal is to display virtual machine hardisk drives used space (e.g : like a vm having C drive and E drive ,here i nee...
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Thank's for your reply,i will try out today like what you suggested,here my goal is to display virtual machine hardisk drives used space (e.g : like a vm having C drive and E drive ,here i need ti find out the used sapce of both drives) to GUI now i could able to get free sapce using vm properties. If VMware Tools is running in the VM, you can use the information in the virtual machine's guest structure. Within this structure there is an array of disks that belong to the virtual machine including the capacity and amount of disk used.
Thank's for your reply,i will try out today like what you suggested,here my goal is to display virtual machine hardisk drives used space (e.g : like a vm having C drive and E drive ,here i nee...
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Thank's for your reply,i will try out today like what you suggested,here my goal is to display virtual machine hardisk drives used space (e.g : like a vm having C drive and E drive ,here i need ti find out the used sapce of both drives) to GUI now i could able to get free sapce using vm properties.
Without going into the filesystem(s) on the disks's partition(s), I do not know of a method to get the used space. Can you explain what your goal is (if it is to shrink a disk, you can use workst...
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Without going into the filesystem(s) on the disks's partition(s), I do not know of a method to get the used space. Can you explain what your goal is (if it is to shrink a disk, you can use workstation / vdiskmanager). -Sudarsan
Hi can any one help me how to know the used space of disk drive in virtual machine i am able get the total space.. but i need to get the used of the vm drive..
One usecase : open a managed disk read-only, create a local child and attach the managed disk to form a chain that is 'writable'. This is needed for such tools that need read-write access to a ...
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One usecase : open a managed disk read-only, create a local child and attach the managed disk to form a chain that is 'writable'. This is needed for such tools that need read-write access to a volume (win2k) though there may be no 'writes'. -Sudarsan
I was looking for a way to create a redo log of a VM with the new VDDK, like I can do for hosted disks. I guess there is none. But then, what is the Attach() function good for? You can't create a...
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I was looking for a way to create a redo log of a VM with the new VDDK, like I can do for hosted disks. I guess there is none. But then, what is the Attach() function good for? You can't create a new disk directly, and if you create a hosted disk and clone it, you get a monolithic flat disk. If all i wanted was to read read the redo log I created with the VI SDK, I would simply Open() that one directly.
You can create a snapshot for a VM using VI api. I don't think that's what you are looking for though, can you explain what you are trying to do? -Sudarsan
Since VixDiskLib_Create does not work with ESX, how then do we create a redo file? Create one locally, clone it, then Attach? The clone process gives you a file the size of your original. Not ver...
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Since VixDiskLib_Create does not work with ESX, how then do we create a redo file? Create one locally, clone it, then Attach? The clone process gives you a file the size of your original. Not very space saving...
DaveP- Thanks for the input. The focus of this 1.0 release is Linux and Windows. We are very interested in hearing demand for Mac OS X and others from the community. Hari
Hi Sudarsan, Why is this? (like the guestApi) This makes it (for me and I assume a lot of other people) a lot harder to work with using normal visual studio.
Hi Guys, Great to hear about this new API, but I do not seem to be able to add the DLL as a reference into my Visual Studio 2005 project. I get an error "A reference to 'c:\program files\vmwar...
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Hi Guys, Great to hear about this new API, but I do not seem to be able to add the DLL as a reference into my Visual Studio 2005 project. I get an error "A reference to 'c:\program files\vmware\vmware virtual disk development kit\bin\vixDiskLib.dll' could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid assembly or COM component. is this (like the guestSDK) one of those libaries based on pure C and you have to manually add every bloody function by hand into my project? If so..WHY? I hope someone can help me with this. Richard
