mapped drives when launching from vix
Hi all, I'm using the VIX COM api to start up a vmware workstation 6.0.3 image and revert it to a named snapshot and log in. The snapshot has a mapped drive pointing to a folder on the host OS....
View ArticleVMWareTasks: A VIX API C# Library (let's reinvent less wheels)
I posted a CodeProject Article this morning with a VMWareTasks C# library on top of the VIX API. It exposes a better programming model for the 99% of those synchronous VMWare scenarios where you don't...
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Multithreading in VIX API: more crashes, any news on fixes?
I've been trying to extend our test automation to parallelize against multiple virtual machines. I am using VMWareTasks. I make a connection to a different VM on two threads, then use the handle(s)...
View ArticleUPGRADE FROM VI3 (esx 3.5 and VC 2.5) to U3 causes constant login errors
Help please. See final results below: (regional settings Slovenian, keyboard US) Before upgrade and still I am getting adtitional errors in VMwareCP.log 21:06:31:1:1256: Process Jobs: Running Task...
View ArticleSpaces In Path To VMX File Causing Problems?
Hello All, I just set up VMWare Server 2.0 (Build 122589) on an Ubuntu 7.10 box, and am attempting to get started with the VIX Perl API. Unfortunately, I'm stuck very early in the process -...
View Articlepython vix
heloes, nice that vix api is too powerfull now, it doesn't take much time for me, to migrate from vmware server 2.0 to esxi. maybe somebody knows are there plans to create an official python version...
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...
View ArticlePossible to list snapshots using VIX?
Is it possible to use just VIX 1.7 within a C# app to list a VM's snapshots by name? I've been looking over the VIX API Reference Documentation and haven't been able to find a function that will list...
View ArticleException:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80010105)
Hi , guys.I'm a newbie about VM. I work with Vestris.VMWareLib1.4 in VS.Net2008. I want to make a windows form app to control VMWare Workstation7.0 and VMWare Server2.0. The workstation has...
View ArticleGetting err: failed to connect to host (22002 The specified version was not...
I'm getting this error when I run the sample script "guestOps". What does it mean the specificed version was not found? I thnk it is referring to the VIX_API_VERSION in the VixHost_Connect()...
View Articlehow can i clone a vmware machine on ESXi?
Hi i have ESXi server. I am using VSphere Client to connect to VCenter Server. I can see the clone option is available in VCenter Server. I am using VIX API to crate snapshot, copy data into guest, run...
View ArticleUnable to compile VIX Programs
Hi, I installed vix api 1.8 in my machine and wrote some sample programs in C. Im using Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 "Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600) Microsoft .NET...
View ArticleFinding guest info from within a guest
I'm trying to work out how I can find out information about a VM (name, resource pool, data store, network connections etc.) from within a (Linux) guest. Within the guest I can find the NIC MAC...
View ArticleQuestion about VMCI
Is there a forum around for VMCI? I'm trying to test out vm to vm communication using vmci sockets on windows guests. The Programming Guide doesn't mention much about the vsocklib.dll provided...
View ArticleIP address of guest OS (VIX API)
Is there a way to figure out the IP address of guest OS in the VM, using VIX API. I did notice in a couple of discussion threads, mention of trying to read VM specific variables using...
View ArticlePython Module for the VIX API
I started a python module for the VIX API. It is very immature and I've just started it last night. Parts of it are working and other parts are a work in progress. Currently the entire VIX API has...
View ArticleCall to Reset(VIX_VMPOWEROP_FROM_GUEST) hangs at some guests
Hello, calling Reset with the option VIX_VMPOWEROP_FROM_GUEST and then calling Wait hangs at some guests waiting forever for the operation to complete (even when the guest SO restarted ok). Currently I...
View ArticleHow to check for directory existence with vmrun?
Hello, I'm porting an existing VIX interface to use vmrun and I cannot find the way to use the DirectoryExistsInGuest with vmrun. Could be that VMware developers forgot it? Is there a workaround?...
View ArticleThere was an error in communication
ESX version: 3.5 U4VIX version: latest Command run:C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h https://172.17.235.10/sdk -u serveruser -p serverpass -gu administrator -gp guestpass...
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...
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