GuestOperationsUnavailable

The model (the same thing in any language kit, but some can summarized some menial details) is the following.

gom_mor = RetrieveServiceContent (.guestOperationsManager)

Some language kits require that you instantiate a GuestOperationsManager object using the managed object reference provided by the ServiceContent (gom)

gomfm = gom.fileManager

Returns an another moref, yet language kits handle differently and you have to may not be not instantiate the object (get its properties)

AUTH = new NamePasswordAuthentication() / / subclass of object GuestAuth

auth.username = "user name".

auth.password = "password"

auth.interactiveSession = false / / usually fake, basically should it initializes a user for the process environment of

gomfm.auth = auth

moref = virtualmachineMoRef / / need to get this by querying the vCenter inventory

guestFilePath = "c:/coolfile.txt".

fileAttributes = new GuestFileAttributes() / / use default or set correctly

coolfile_bytes = file size / / important, it determines the buffer when you submit later PUT the request for transfer

Overwrite = false / / who would ever want to crush coolfile?

put_url = InitiateFileTransferToGuest (gomfm, moref, guestFilePath, fileAttributes, fileSize, overwrite)

most of the language kits add this function to the gomfm itself then-

put_url = gomfm. InitiateFileTransferToGuest (guestFilePath, moref, fileAttributes, fileSize, overwrite)

Then, you must apply a HTTP PUT to this put_url, set your content-length header on the bytes that you define in the file size.  In the same way with the content-type.  Your language may have a simple library PUT that does it all for you of course, William used Perl's LWP make the option PUT.

You probably have questions b/c technically, you need to get the content of GuestOperationsManager to get the GuestFileManager, AuthManager.  You can not just jump to GuestFileManager, you must value MOREF, you get from the GuestOperationsManager.guestFileManager to the InitiateFileTransferToGuest().

Which language kit that you use for your project?

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