Getting Virtual Disk state - persistent / non persistent
Hi. I need to check whether a virtual disk is in persistent mode or not. no need to change it, just get the current state. code is in C#. I know how to get the power state and so, but never gone too...
View ArticleImplementing the VMWare web services in win apps C#
Hi I am trying to implement the web services that are available at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/ in C# windows app. Can you pleases help me out. I sucess fully extracted the WSDL...
View ArticleHow do I programmatically connect cdrom device on virtual machine in vmware...
The problem: Automate loading of multiple iso image "product" onto a virtual machine. Searching I've found that changing the iso image for a cdrom virtual drive in a virtual machine seems to be a...
View ArticleCopyFilefromHostToGuest C# webservices or VIXAPI
Hi, Can any one help me to CopyFileFromHostToGuest using the Web Services in C#. Any sample code would be greatly appreciated. I am using VIX PAI call VixVM_CopyFileFromHostToGuest. But this call...
View Article(vSphere) - Vcenter Storage views
Hi.. How to collect the provisioned space and Shared space for each VM ...Via VI SDK..
View ArticleAnyone using the new federated Search Service via the servlets under vws?
Trying to get some of my tools back to vmware code rather than leverage external datasources. One major place I am trying to revert back to is my fesderated search routine over a bunch of VCs....
View ArticleAutomated datastore allocation
I have not yet migrated to vSphere and am using Virtual Center 2.x and ESX 3.5. I'm trying to determine if there is an automated way to invoke the discovery of a Datastore, either NFS or SAN....
View ArticleUnique identification of virtual machine to prevent licesning breach
Hi I am working on making our product compatible with virtual environments. At the moment we are working on VmWare Server 2.0 but in future we have plans to support VmWare ESXi as well. Our product...
View ArticleError "A specified parameter was not correct....
The env is on vCenter 4.0 and ESX 4.0. Here is part of customization code, cSysPrep.setUserData(new CustomizationUserData()); cSysPrep.getUserData().setComputerName(new...
View ArticleVMCI Sockets - Guest to Host Communication
Hi, I am planning to use VMCI Sockets API to communicate from Guest machine to Host machine. My requirement is to get data from the Host machine. This can include, getting the IP of the host...
View ArticleDirect3D 8.0 pixel shader issue (Workstation 7)
Hi one of my pixel shaders uses a complement in the operation for example, mov r0, 1-c0 or mul r0, t0, 1-c0 for some reason workstation is completely ignoring the complement aspect of the...
View Article"up to eight virtual machines in a linked virtual machine group"? I got lots...
According to this linked virtual machine tech notes, http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/linked_vms_note.pdf, it says " up to eight virtual machines in a linked virtual machine group"/ I...
View ArticleCreate Filesystem on VMDK Offline
Hi All, anybody know how to create Partition Table,and a filesystem on a VMDK-Flat File ? I Can Write a MBR With DD, But After I cannot use Any other command with vmware-mount. If anybody have a...
View ArticleWhere can i find the VI Perl Toolkit?
Hi, I'm looking for the download location of the VI Perl Toolkit. I'm trying to monitor my ESXI using nagios, but in order to make this work i need the VI Perl Toolkit. My OS is Debian 5.0. Can...
View ArticleError in VM Migration across clusters
Hi, I have setup 2 clusters each having 2 ESX (vSphere 4.0) hosts configured. When I manually try to migrate the VM across the clusters using the vSphere client, the migration is successful. But when I...
View ArticleVMware icons (*.ico files)
Hi, Where can I find the latest VMware icons, similar to those used in the vSphere Client? I am developing a Windows application in Visual Studio, and would very much like to use the official icons so...
View ArticleApplication Crash
Hi,one of our customers is experiencing a crash of our software. First, he had this crash on a physical machine. We asked him to reproduce it in a VM, so he installed the same system (Windows Server...
View ArticleGetting paravirtualization support information through VI SDK API
Hi, I am using Virtual Infrastructure API to retrieve various configration information for a VM using C++ code . While I am able to retrieve most of them from...
View ArticleAMD Opteron Quad Core VM linux "cat /proc/cpuinfo" only one processor? or 4...
Hi all: I have 5 virtual server that my area of administration created, has twovirtual processors, AMD Opteron, my question is that if the kernelshould recognize 8 cores or only 2, when i press the...
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