Re: Vmware api

2008-08-18 Thread Eric Wertman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do the ESX server provide any api's or an interactive session may ? Yes, there's a seemingly very full-featured API, that's documented here: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html They ha

Re: Vmware api

2008-08-18 Thread Edwin . Madari
do the ESX server provide any api's or an interactive session may ? thx. Edwin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Wertman Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 2:43 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Vmware api I would al

Re: Vmware api

2008-08-17 Thread Eric Wertman
I would also be interested in anything anyone can offer. I spend some time looking around, and took a fair stab at using the wsdl2py that comes with The ZSI package. Ultimately I couldn't get anything to work, and reverted to using perl (yuk). I'm interested mostly in interrogating the ESX serve

Re: Vmware api

2008-08-17 Thread Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka
Hi! Luke, You can use the vmrun command for interacting with VMware Workstation/Fusion. You can do something like import os os.system('vmrun start .vmxFile') os.system('vmrun stop .vmxFile') If you can be more specific about your needs, I may be able to help you further. Thanks, Raj On Sun, A

Vmware api

2008-08-17 Thread Luke Hamilton
Hi List, Has anyone here played around with getting python to talk to the vmware api's. I have had a quick look at vmware's api and there is no out of the box python packages, but I believe that there might be some third party wrappers around? If anyone has any info that would be great. Thanks