Will 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 API 1.11.0 / 1.12.0 vmrun.exe Crashes
Any Success here ? See https://communities.vmware.com/thread/281234 CheersDirk
View ArticleVIX Error 3009 when powering off VMware Player 3.0
Hi! I'm testing VIX API 1.8 with VMware Player 3.0. But sometimes when calling VixVM_PowerOff() I get the error code 3009 - VIX_E_POWEROP_SCRIPTS_NOT_AVAILABLE, with the message "Cannot execute...
View ArticleSilent install for VIX API runtime?
Greetings, I need to be able to do a silent/unattended install the VIX API on Linux. It would be great if you guys provided an RPM, but since you don't, I was going to try to create one from the VIX...
View ArticleVIX for MAC VMware fusion
Hi, I am unable to get VIX library for MAC VMware fusion. Can anyone guide me to get VIX libraries to run vmrun utility? Regards,akash
View ArticleVixError 22002: The specified version was not found.
Greetings, I'm trying to use the latest VMWare Player and VIX tools to build an automated testing framework. However, when I call VixHost_Connect, all I get is: VixError 22002: The specified version...
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Can VIX be used to get UPTIME
Can VIX be used to get UPTIME as seen via a column in vSphere client? I am not looking for the client OS uptime. I'm looking for the time since it was started or since it was last resumed from pause.
View ArticleConfiguring Output from vmrun runProgramInGuest
Hello, I am using vmrun to run an MSDOS batch file inside a Windows vm as follows: vmrun -T vc -h https://<vcenterservername>:443/sdk -u username -p password -gu Administrator -gp...
View ArticleAPI for Get-template?.
Hello All,I am trying to find VMware template API command, what we use to get the templates from the vcenter using get-template command in the power cli method. IS anybody know, is any handy guide...
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Intermittent crashes the Vix API
We had been experiencing intermittent crashes the Vix API. We recently switched to launching vmrun.exe in a subprocess instead so the Vix API crashes would not kill our application. We have found...
View ArticleAbout undocumented VIX API
I would like to be able to configure networking as well as set vcpus and memory of my VMs, and so on. It seems like the VIX library includes a whole bunch of functions that are not exposed in the...
View ArticleVixCOM.Constants problem in VBScript
I've been trying to write some code to create snapshots of virtual machines (in VBScript). When I use the code sample from the VIX COM API Reference, I get an "Object Required: 'VixCom.Constants'"...
View Articleserver2 hostconnect() fails with invalid parameters
Hi all, I have installed vmware-server-e.x.p.-63231.i386.tar.gz onto SLES 10 Sp1.From the directory /vmware-vix I untarred the vmware-vix.tar.gz and installed using the installer script.I untarred the...
View Articlemigration
i mount my virtual machine(fedora8) in another system.when i try to power on that virtual machine i got the error like "cannot open the disk /mnt/fedora8.vmdk file or one of the snapshot disk depends...
View ArticleVIX 1.1.3 and Delphi 7
Hi everyone, I started porting VIX API calls on Delphi (using Delphi 7 upd. 1) and first tests are encouraging (I can connect to a host, start a VM, stop it, suspend it, login, logout, run...
View ArticleVIX API for VM Player ?
Hi, I am new to VM products and was curious if this SDK will work for VM Player? Particularly, I need to script loading and booting images using VM Free player. Is this possible or is there something...
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 ArticleCopyDatastoreFile_Task strange behaviour
Hello, I need to copy virtual disks (or files) between datastors in VI. I am using VMware Infrastructure (VI) API from perl. Initialy I tried to use CopyVirtualDisk_Task, but it apeared that it works...
View ArticleDisconnecting NIC in guest Programmatically
Hello, I am currently in search of a way to programmatically disconnect the guest's NIC. I have looked in several different places for a possible solution but I have come up practically empty handed....
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...
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