Globalization - creating non-english language VM

mpr4ul — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:17:04 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to create a VM with French language words.

vSphere Client allowing and creating fine, but I am getting below error with Perl API call.

Failed to Create virtual machine "fenêtres" due to

SOAP Fault:

----

Fault string:

Error returned by expat parser: unclosed token

while parsing SOAP envelope

at line 2, column 3

while parsing HTTP request for method createVm

on object of type vim.Folder

at line 1, column 0

Fault detail: InvalidRequestFault .

Failed to Create virtual machine "fenêtres" due to

SOAP Fault:

----

Fault string:

Error returned by expat parser: unclosed token

while parsing SOAP envelope

at line 2, column 3

while parsing HTTP request for method createVm

on object of type vim.Folder

at line 1, column 0

Fault detail: InvalidRequestFault .

Do we have to set any language related parameters ?
For connection i set default local to "en_US" to connect non-english vCenter.

Thanks in advance

Re: Globalization - creating non-english language VM

stumpr — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:56:29 GMT

So I think the problem is the ComplexType object doesn't encode_utf8 like it does for SimpleTypes. It gets to the property with characters that should be encoded and doesn't.

You can sort of force it yourself. I have an example below using Rename_Task(). Should be the same issue in your CreateVM_Task() call. If you're using someone else's script, you'll probably have to wrap the potential french accent characters in encode_utf8. You could patch up VICommon.pm. If that's something you think you need to do, let me know. Should be able to just do it for the 'string-like' properties during serialization.

You will probably get a warning message from LWP about the content header length (I did). I'm guessing there's something in the HTTP header content-length calculation missing in the VICommon.pm as well.

$ perl test.pl --username=administrator --password=* --server=172.16.2.10 --oldvmname=test --newvmname=fenêtres

Content-Length header value was wrong, fixed at /Library/Perl/5.18/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 190.

# VM was renamed to 'fenêtres' in the vSphere Client UI

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Created by Reuben Stump (http://www.virtuin.com)

use strict;

use warnings;

use VMware::VIRuntime;

use Encode qw(encode_utf8);

my %opts = (

oldvmname => {

type => "=s",

required => 1,

},

newvmname => {

type => "=s",

required => 1,

},

);

Opts::add_options(%opts);

Opts::parse();

Opts::validate();

Util::connect();

my ($old_name, $new_name, $vm);

$old_name = Opts::get_option('oldvmname');

$new_name = encode_utf8(Opts::get_option('newvmname'));

$vm = Vim::find_entity_view(

view_type => 'VirtualMachine',

properties => ['name'],

filter => { 'name' => $old_name }

);

die "Failed to find vm '$old_name'" unless $vm;

# Rename VM

$vm->Rename(newName => $new_name);

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