How do I get a Virtual Machines DNS name using the VI Perl Tool Kit???

[Lab_Rat_Chris]

I have a bit of code which I have included below. This works fine for getting the virtual machines common name(Earth). I am looking for the proper value of the vm to look at to gain access to it's dns name(Earth.SolarSystem.com).

Has anyone done this? If so how?????

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my $vm = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => "VirtualMachine");

foreach (@$vm) {

eval {

my $vmname = $_->name;

1. Do Something

}

}

Thanks

Chris

[kri-2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

try this one:

my $vm = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => "VirtualMachine");

foreach (@$vm) {

print $_->\{guest}->\{'hostName'} ;

}

[tmilner]

This will only work if you have VMware Tools installed.

Tom