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RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.
RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems. I always received that message when creating new Administrator from local users in Linux or adding user permission on a...
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 ArticleAV: assert from Glib + crash in a C# environment
Using 1.6.2 and an ESX VM. There's something very wrong caused by a RevertToSnapshot + Disconnect call. I can reproduce this 100%. Maybe I can have symbols for vix.dll or a developer can contact me? -...
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 ArticleMultithreading in VIX API crashes:invalid handle
I creating two separate threads, T1 and T2 then calling T1.connect(windows xp sp2) and T2.connect(windows 2000 server). Then when calls T2.Disconnect, T1 handle is invalidated as well. If do not...
View ArticleVixJob_Wait API results segmentation fault after VixVM_PowerOn
All, Trying some VM automation Code using VIX API SDK. After Loading libvixAllProducts.so, VM registers successfully. But when I tried to PowerOn, VM VixJob_Wait give me segmentation fault after...
View ArticleMy program crashes in VIX with: Access violation reading location
Hi, My C# program that uses the VIX API keeps crashing. I'm trying to use VIX 1.2.6 to connect to ESXi 3.5.0.The crash usually seems to happen after I kick off a job and while I'm waiting for it to...
View Articlevmrun in ESX server console
Is there an equivalent tool to "vmrun" that will let you make VIX API calls from the ESX console? thanks, -h
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 ArticleErrors 22002 and 22003 with VixHost_Connect()
I am getting started working with the vmware API's. I wrote a c++ tool that calls them. It is working fine on my build machine with both VMware Workstation and our ESX server. However when I copy the...
View ArticleStarting up a VM with java
I've been trying to write Java code to startup and login to a Windows Server 2003 VM. However, it doesnt quite seem to work. I'm using the VIX DLL, and using JNA calls to directly invoke the C API...
View ArticleVixJob_Wait API problems after VixVM_Open API
I have encountered two problems at VixJobWait API after issuing VixVM_Open API. My C++ program monitors properties of VMs such as POWER_STATE, VMX_PATHNAME, REPLAYING and RUNNING from remote work...
View ArticleCopyFileFromHostToGuest - INTERNAL ERROR: A file was not found
Hey, I am trying to Copy files into a VMWare image hosted in ESX using VIX (C# Wrapper around the COM API), but I can't quite get it right. Conceptual Something like: IVMWareVirtualHost host = new...
View ArticleVerify that a VIX host is connected?
I want to connect to a VIX host with VixHost_Connect() and then share the handle with various threads. If the connection drops I want to reconnect and acquire a new handle to share out. How can I...
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...
View ArticleVix error 28
I am getting an error return 28 on VixJob_Wait. I am looking in the list of error codes and I don't see it. Am I missing it or is it not listed?
View Article[Urgent] Please help me out - Invalid user name or password on Guest Ubuntu
Hi, Ater searching on Google for 1 week, I have finally came here. please help me out. I have Windows 7 host OS and Ubuntu 11.04 for the Guest OS on running VMWare Workstation 6.5 I have any problem to...
View ArticleIntermittent connection to ESX using VIX
My script (and vmrun) can't establish a reliable connection to an ESX server via VIX. Lets say I execute the script 10 times consecutively. the script will fail at VMOpen() function call 6 out of 10...
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Fusion 4 vmrun fileExistsInGuest results in "This operation is not supported...
HI, I have a Mac Mini server running OS X 10.7.3 Lion - on this I have VMware Fusion 4.11 installed - using Fusion I created a virtual mac running OS x 10.7.3 Lion Using the vmrun utility I am able to...
View Articlevifs --get internal error
Hi, I'm getting an internal error 500 from # vifs --server srv2 --username root --password *** -g "[SATA-RAID5] ISO/CentOS-6.2-x86_64-minimal.iso" ./xGET...
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