Command line antics for VMware Server…
something in my vmware server setup at home is malfunctioning – I cannot
reliably get to the web interface. There used to be a command line interface,
but they totally changed that between VM server 1.0 and 2.0….
… but it is there: so here, for my memory and your enlightenment, what I
succeeded in doing:
sudo vmware-vimsh -r -e “hostsvc/connect localhost 902; hostsvc/login; ”
(you need to do this as root, since it uses an SSL key that is stored in a
root-only directory under /etc/vmware)
You now are at some sort of shell. Documentation is at
http://www.vi-toolkit.com/wiki/index.php/Vimsh
I wanted to create a snapshot of one of my VMs. So:
[/]$ hostsvc/login vilhuber XXXXXXX
[/]$ vmsvc/snapshot.create
Insufficient arguments.
Usage: snapshot.create vmid [snapshotName] [snapshotDescription] [includeMemory]
[quiesced]
Creates a snapshot for the vm.
[/]$ vmsvc/getallvms
[/]$ vmsvc/snapshot.create 256
Create Snapshot:
[/]$ vmsvc/message 256
No message.
[/]$ vmsvc/get.snapshotinfo 256
(vim.vm.SnapshotInfo) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
currentSnapshot = 'vim.vm.Snapshot:256-snapshot-14',
rootSnapshotList = (vim.vm.SnapshotTree) [
(vim.vm.SnapshotTree) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
snapshot = 'vim.vm.Snapshot:256-snapshot-14',
vm = 'vim.VirtualMachine:256',
name = "VMware Server Undopoint",
description = "",
createTime = "2010-01-29T14:07:42.280165-05:00",
state = "poweredOff",
quiesced = false,
backupManifest = <unset>,
replaySupported = false,
}
],
}
