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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 ArticleWhere and what is the folder d:\build\ob\bora-xxxxx\
Dear Colleagues, This may be a stupid question but I am unable to find a clear and straight answer anywhere. Can someone tell me where I can find this following folder "d:\build\ob\bora-xxxxx\" What is...
View Articlefew vmrun.exe questions
Environment:VIX 1.6.2 installed on Windows XP SP2ESX 3.5u2VM is Windows XP SP2 and has latest VMware Tools installedUsing Windows batch script at the moment Got a few questions regarding "vmrun.exe"...
View ArticleAPIs ported to Delphi?
Im a hardened delphi person, my C skills are a little weak, I dont suppose theres anyone here whos ported the VIX 1.1 APIs into delphi?
View ArticleVMworld
VMworld 2007, to be held Sept. 11-13 in San Francisco, will feature: \- over 250 sessions, including several on programming and scripting\- 15 different hands-on labs, including instructor-led labs on...
View ArticleVIX API and IE7 dwmapi.dll missing dlls
Hi I had myraid of problems with using the c API . I am using workstation 6 with the API . I tried to use it on windows XP . I couldnt run the sample programs provided because of a missing dlls...
View ArticleProblem connecting to Host (VixHost_Connect)
Hi all I'v installed workstation 6 on my PC, with Vista OSI compiled the sample code file "PowerOn.c" from the VMWare automization SDK. when running the function VixHost_Connect(VIX_API_VERSION,...
View ArticleVIX Perl, VMRunProgramInGuest and reading exitcode
Hello all,is there posibility to read exitcode that program executed via VMRunProgramInGuest returns? I mean in Perl.I found that there is a VIX_PROPERTY_JOB_RESULT_GUEST_PROGRAM_EXIT_CODE but this is...
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 ArticleVIX works with ESXi Update 4?
Does VIX work with ESXi U4? I noticed that since Update4 the management RCLI etc. doesn't work unless you have the paide license for ESXi. Is that the case for VIX as well? Should I consider these...
View ArticleSnapshot operation does not release host socket
I am writing a program that allows me to schedule scripts to run in my SLES VMs and create snapshots. The program will run perfectly for several days then crash. I have noticed that my program leaves a...
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 ArticleXML error on calling VixHost_Connect
Hello when I call the VixHost_Connect function I get this error: vimServiceVersions.xml:1: parser error : Space required after the Public Identifier<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML...
View ArticleProblem loading vix.dll
I am using the VMWare Tasks library to try and automate some VMs for testing. However when my C# program (32-bit) tries to load vix.dll it seems to fail. Running vmrun.exe from the VixCOM directory...
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VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_WORKSTATION error
Hi, I'm trying to run a script in a 64-bit Windows 7 VM usingthe vmrun command line tool (1.6.0.2073) and the following options: vmrun -T ws -gu user -gp passwordrunProgramInHost "C:\vms\W7.vmx"...
View ArticleAny API to control VMware WorkStation?
I am currently using VIX API to open a VM and run our testing tool on the VM but is there any way to control VMware Workstation? I am thinking of things like maximizing it (which I have tried via...
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"Invalid user name or password for the guest OS" error in vmrun...
Hi all, i have this script "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\vmware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" -T ws revertToSnapshot "C:\_virtual-machines\vmware virtual machines\windows xp hry\windows xp hry.vmx" "testovani...
View ArticleVmrun.exe and UNC Paths
Greetings, Are UNC paths to .vmx fully supported by vmrun (version 1.8.1)? vmrun list will returns 0 running vms if they were loaded and launched using the UNC path to the vmx config file. Thank...
View ArticleVMX file path format and read permission for the file
The problem we currently have is connecting to VMs using the VIX API. The API has a method VMOpen : ($err, $vmHandle) = VMOpen($hostHandle,$vmxFilePathName); This function opens a virtual machine on...
View ArticleUnable to connect to ESXi 4.0.0 using vmrun
Hello dear experts, I have a Linux machine where VIX API 1.10.1 is installed. I'm trying to list the available VMs of an ESXi 4.0.0 machine, using the command below: vmrun -T esx -h...
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