VIX with Freebie ESXi
Hi all, I'm trying to use VIX 1.7 remotely against a test ESXi 3.5 server (VMware ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0, 153875). It fails from the API when connecting (no errors) so I've tried going to basics and...
View Article64-bits VIX API does not include implementation of libvix.so for vmware...
I've just installed the newest VIX API on SLES 10 64 bits and realized that it does not support vmware server 1.x. there is no /usr/lib/vmware-vix/server-1.0.9/64bit/libvix.so or...
View ArticleProblem linking against latest version of VixAllProducts.lib
I've researched various posts but none of the suggested workarounds seem to work. I am using VS 2010, linking against this library works fine in 1.10.3.Does anyone have any pointers? By the way, I get...
View Articlevix-perl installation problem
Hi,I'm trying to install vix-perl module on a Windows server with cygwin as build environment.I have unzipped the vix-perl tar in a directory and succesfully executed the 'perl Makefile.PL'...
View Articlecopy file from vco to guest failure?
Hi I am running VCO 5.1 appliance in a vsphere 5.1 environment. I am attempting to write a file to a guest machine. I have tried using both Local Administrator and Domain Administrator credentials but...
View ArticleProblem with VixVM_RunProgramInGuest
I am trying to run VixVM_RunProgramInGuest() with a Windows environment variable. jobHandle = VixVM_RunProgramInGuest(vmHandle, %ComSpec%, //...
View Article/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl --default --compile any hidden options?
Hi,I dug up a very old post to silent install the vmware-tools on linux. There are a bunch of posts on how to silent install them in windows, but I need linux.So I found this someone...
View ArticleTrying to use VIX coupled with BlackBerry 10 simulator
I've got the basics down, I am using .NET managed wrappers around VIX to boot my BlackBerry 10 emulator. However, there's no 'Guest Tools', so I'm very limited in what I can do. Basically, I need to...
View ArticleWill VIX API continue to be supported in vSphere 5.5 ?
Hi, Will the current VIX API's continue to be supported for the upcoming vSphere version - 5.5?I know that, now similar functionality are exposed by Web Services APIs. Still wanted to check whether the...
View ArticleVIX powerOn.c link errors in Windows/VS6 C++
I down loaded VMware-vix-1.1.0-45731.exe and am now trying to get powerOn.c to compile/link in Visual Studio 6 C++. I'm using a release configuration, since I understand VixAllProducts.lib is a...
View ArticleUse VixAllProducts.lib cause many link errors
Hi: I am using WS 6.0. 1 and VIX API . Since VIX API version issues, I try to link my program with VixAllProducts.lib. But when I wrote a small console C program link with this lib, I found...
View Article"One of the parameters was invalid" while performing guest operations
I have an application that copies files to a VM Image, runs and applications, and then copies the result files back. The application loops through several configurations, at the begining of the loop...
View ArticleBug: power-state of a suspended VM is reported as powered-off in VMware Server 2
Hi! One of the users of my C# wrapper library for VixCOM (http://www.codeplex.com/VixCOMWrapper) noticed a problem in the current implementation: when querying the power-state of a VM using the...
View ArticleHow to 'enable folder sharing' from dos?
I have a VM under development targeted for use with VMware Workstation v6.x, hosted in Windows XP. It uses a combination of scripts running in the VM kicked off by a .bat file on the host. The host...
View ArticleError: The specified service provider was not found
hi all, I just installed vix 1.6.2 and ran the vmrun which gave me the error "Error: The specified service provider was not found" details:vmware workstation 6.5.1trying to connect to workstation...
View ArticleThrowing vmodl.fault.RequestCanceled without actually having cancelled a request
I'm running VMware Server 2.0.0, Build 122956, and Vix 1.6.2, Build 127388, on an Ubuntu 8.04.03-LTS system. The setup works reasonably well most of the time - I've been able to do VM management via...
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VMRun to obtain Guest hostname or IP address
Hello, I'm using VMRun to start some virtual machines, however it would be really useful if I could execute a command to obtain their hostname and\or IP address. The guest machine is an ubuntu box. I...
View ArticleCID and Parent CID are same in *0001.vmdk files
Hi, Im using VIX api to create snapshot. Im doing in the following way... 1. delete the snap if already snap is available. So it merges the data's in flat.vmdk file and the changes will added in...
View Articleupgrade cpu and memory of virtual machine
How do we upgarde the memory and cpu of a virtual machine using perl VIX api?
View ArticleExecuting "vmrun runScriptInGuest" on FreeBSD 8.2 guest
Hello, I would like to use VIX API to run some custom scripts on FreeBSD system. For that purpose I installed VMware Player 4.0 on my Windows 7 x32 host system, and then installed FreeBSD 8.2 guest...
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