get MacAdress

[thb_]

im trying to retrive the MacAdress of a VM as String. Lets say i have a virtual machine with only one vmxnet3 nic. As Input i select vc:virtualmachine.

How do i get the mac adress of that one nic?

There must be a simple way or ?

[schepp · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I use this little script to get the MAC of my newly created VMs.

newVMObject is my vc:virtualmachine Input

var deviceArray = newVMObject.config.hardware.device;  
if (!deviceArray) throw "Error getting hardware config array of VM";  

for (var i in deviceArray) {  
    var currentDevice = deviceArray.pop();  
    if (currentDevice) {  
        if (currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualE1000 ||  
            currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualPCNet32 ||   
            currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet ||   
            currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet2 ||
            currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet3 ||   
            currentDevice instanceof VcVirtualVmxnet) {  
                var mac = currentDevice.macAddress;  
        }  
    }  
}  

Tim