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How to get VmWare Workstation VM using Python PySphere

Update: The problem still exists even if I try to create Shared VMs and change the location of these VMs.

I am stuck trying to get to a virtual machine located in D:\VMs\CentOS-Backup\CentOS-Secondary-Server.vmx

using PySphere .

Could you help me?

Everything I have tried so far:

from pysphere import VIServer

server = VIServer()
server.connect("127.0.0.1", "my_system_login", "my_system_password")

# prints 'VMware Workstation'
print server.get_server_type()

# prints '5.1'
print server.get_api_version()

# Exception
vm = server.get_vm_by_path(r"D:\VMs\CentOS-Backup\CentOS-Secondary-Server.vmx")

vm.power_on()

The mentioned exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 2.7\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1473, in <module> 
    debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 2.7\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1117, in run
    pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals) #execute the script
  File "D:/Projects/PyUnitTesting/pyunittest/launcher.py", line 13, in <module>
    vm = server.get_vm_by_path(r"D:\VMs\CentOS-Backup\CentOS-Secondary-Server.vmx")
  File "C:\dev\Python27\lib\site-packages\pysphere\vi_server.py", line 291, in get_vm_by_path
    FaultTypes.OBJECT_NOT_FOUND)
pysphere.resources.vi_exception.VIException: [Object Not Found]: Could not find a VM with path 'D:\VMs\CentOS-Backup\CentOS-Secondary-Server.vmx'

Please note that I have installed the VIX API . But didn't do any specific PATH additions. Could you give me a hint if I really need to do this?

Thank!

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I finally figured it out! You need to make sure the virtual machines are shared. VM-> Manage-> Share ...



They will then appear in the server.get_registered_vms () file and you can use get_vm_by_name.

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According to the docs, I don't think you should be supplying the raw file path to the VM. I think there is an internal meaning to the path:

http://code.google.com/p/pysphere/wiki/GettingStarted#Getting_VM_properties

  • get_vm_by_path: get the virtual machine from the path to the virtual machine configuration file. To get this value through the VMWare VI client:
    • Right click on the vm icon in the resource tree and select "Change Settings ..."
    • Click the Options tab.
    • The value is specified in the "Virtual machine configuration file" field


Their example code shows this:

vm1 = server.get_vm_by_path("[DataStore1] Ubuntu/Ubuntu-10.vmx")
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