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VMware-VIX versions for Gentoo Linux
While installing VMware Player from the Gentoo Linux repositories, I was advised also to download directly from VMware, specifically, "VMware-VIX-1.11.4-744019.i386.bundle". I was not able to find this...
View ArticleGet network speed from guest system
subj... Is there anyway to get the network adapter speed by using VMware workstation API?
View ArticleTechnology Exchange Developer Day - VIX API Applications and Scripts for...
Hello, We are happy to announce about our hands-on demo at Technology Exchange Developer Day 2009, VIX API Applications and Scripts for Managing Guest Environments Presenter: Matt Lamantia Demo ID:...
View ArticleHow to get VM path to .vmx file when you have the VM name?
Hi All,I'm using the latest release of VIX API to power on VMs on an ESX server. I'm working with C# in Visual Studio 2012 and currently, I power on the VM using the following code:...
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...
View Articleconnect to ESX VM from VBScript ( VIX or VmCOM) - Urgent :(
I have a ESX 3.5 Server running few VMs I have a urgent request to write vbscripts to do switch on a machine "VM-x" remotely, copy a batch file from my local windows XP host to this VM-X and then...
View ArticleCall to RunProgramInGuest hangs without executing anything
Hello, I'm automating several things on VMs located at a 3.5 ESX host and I've found that sometimes executing RunProgramInGuest just after rebooting the guest does not start the application nor returns...
View ArticleUsing VMLoginInGuest() when user is on a domain
I'm having a bit of a problem. I have a Perl script using the VIX API to control VM's on VMware Server 1.0, and I'm having trouble correctly executing VMLoginInGuest. Previously the script I created...
View ArticleHow to add a harddrive to a guest VM [in command line interface]?
(Sorry for reposting.) Hello, guys, I am trying to script up a process of adding a couple hundreds of RAW device mappings to a guest VM on my Vmware ESX 2.5. I looked every where I know and still...
View ArticleLoginInGuest and VIX_CONSOLE_USER
I'm interested in taking advantage of the feature described in the documentation snippet below: * Optionally, you may call LoginInGuest() with the constant defined by VIX_CONSOLE_USER_NAME in vix.h as...
View Articlenot able to run perl script in virtual machine
HI everybody, i am not able to run the script in guest machine using VMRunScriptInGuest() command of VIX API .it doesn't seem giving any error . the script text is as follows. $text= "use...
View ArticleVixCOM.VixLib.Connect call fails with error code 3014;...
I am attempting to use the VIX API 1.60 from a VBS script to connect to a VC 2.5 Server using the VixCOM.VixLib.Connect call with the hostType parameter set to...
View ArticleRunning vmrun on Linux/Windows with ESX
I know VIX 1.6.2 was just released which now supports ESX 3.5u2+ (I believe). I know there are some blogs floating out there about how to use "vmrun.exe" on Windows to manage your Virtual Machines on...
View ArticleLoginInGuest() issue with VIX_LOGIN_IN_GUEST_REQUIRE_INTERACTIVE_ENVIRONMENT...
Hi, I'm having problem with the LoginInGuest() function when using the VIX_LOGIN_IN_GUEST_REQUIRE_INTERACTIVE_ENVIRONMENT option. Here's the code written in C#: jobHandle =...
View ArticleOpenVM & PowerOn hanging ...
Hi, Using v1.6.2 of the API. Connecting to VMware EXS Server, 3.0.2 (52542).When the VM is in a powered OFF state, I can connect to the VM (using OpenVM()), but the code hangs when calling...
View ArticleVMDK mount automation using vixDiskMountServer
It is possible to mount a VMDK disk by right-clicking on it with VMware Workstation 6.5. It uses vixDiskMountServer.exe. Unfortunately, there is no documentation on how to do it automatically. My...
View ArticleError "Insufficient permissions in host operating system" when an...
I have granted an user as an Administrator on the specified folder, her tried to power on a VM with calling VIX API but get the below error:'Insufficient permissions in host operating system'. What...
View Articlentdll crash
Anybody had ntdll.dll problems while using VIX C API? I don't know for sure my problem is caused by VIX. I have a java application that uses the VIX API through JNI. A few times, while it was running a...
View ArticleUsing Vmware API to code A sandboxed environment for testing Malicious code
Hello,I am writing a module to emulate malicious code and i want to be able to monitor what goes on in real time and restrict certain behaviours (sandboxing??).. is there anyways i can do that using...
View Articlevmware-guestd (VIX) log
I have a VIX Perl script I'm using that creates a shell script, copies to a (Linux) VM, runs it, and gets a file with the results. When I called the VMLoginInGuest function I get the error:...
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