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karnowski
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‎08-20-2009 07:13 AM

Getting the DNS name servers from an existing virtual machine?

I can set the DNS name servers successfully (by using the CustomizationGlobalIPSettings object), but how do I get the list of DNS name servers from an existing virtual machine through vSphere's web API? I'm trying to get the values of the "nameserver" lines in the /etc/resolv.conf file for a Linux VM.

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lamw
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‎08-20-2009 08:39 AM

afaik, this is not available via the VI/vSphere API, if you have VMware Tools installed, you can get the following networking information from a VM: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html

You may want to take a look at VMware VIX API which can do this but the current 1.6.2 version does not support vSphere, just VI 3.5

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