Information in the VMX file reader

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• I need a way to search search all the .vmx files

  I have a problem with vMotions in vCenter 6.0 I migrant to ESXi 5.5 with standard switches to a vCenter 6.0 with distributive switches.  For your information, here is the process.

  (1) unplug the host to vCEnter 5.5

  (2) add a host to vCenter 6.0

  (3) migration of ESXI 5.5 to 6.0 ESXi host with the installation of a standard switch.

  4) migrate to 6.0 with standard switch ESXi ESXi 6.0 with D-switch.

  Full migration.  The reason for the double jump is that esxi 55 can't change host and network to a switch-d so I have to get to ESXi 6.0 first.

  It all works very well, but for some reason, the .vmx file doesn't change not the port group. She is always present the standard switch. How ever VMS are on the rise and connected, the web client shows the port of switch-D group.  But when I do a vMotion it changes again in the d switch and the VM crashes.

  I have a case open with VMware to solve this, but I need to get the other VMS migrate without failure.

  The explanation may have been a bit long-winded, but here's what I need.

  I'm OK with PowerCLI but it is a bit outside my experience.  Can we create a script for watching all the ethernet ports in the .vmx for all virtual machines files see what port on their group name?

  Thanks for any help

  Tree!

  Try like this

  Get - VM | Select Name,

  @{N = "PG"; E = {(Get-NetworkAdapter-VM $_ |)} {(Sélectionnez-ExpandProperty NetworkName) - join ' |'}}

• Getting information about the FLV file...

  is it possible to get information from the FLV file (perhaps in the metadata) to find the codec, frame rate, kilobits per second, audio data rate, etc...
  
  can read the information? or can it be done IN flash?

  FLV metadata viewer:

  http://www.buraks.com/flvmdv/

• Question about the .vmx file created on ESXi

  I'm trying to automate the creation of a virtual machine and take a snapshot. I use the vSphere SDK Perl.

  The problem I faced is if I create a virtual machine called TestVM, the .vmx file created on the ESXi is TestVM_1.vmx instead of TestVM.vmx due to which my snapshot creation fails.

  I faced the same problem, if I manually create the virtual computer. If there is no other computer virtual with the same name.

  A restart of the server ESXi fixed the problem.

• How to extract information from the ovf file from a file of eggs by programming?

  How to extract information from the ovf file from a file of eggs by programming?

  Hello

  Please provide details:

  -On what OS you are programming (Linux, Windows,...)?

  -What programming or scripting language do you use?

  An EGG file is just a tarball of hard, .ovf and .mf files. The .ovf file is always the first. For example, on a Unix like operating system, this should be easy.

  For Windows, there are several options available to manage programmatically the tarballs. See for example http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/470999/tarlib-Windows-TAR-Library.

  And the ovf itself file is in XML format. For handling XML files are libraries available for literally every OS and programming language.

  Google is your friend.

  Andreas

• How to get VM to the .vmx file path when you have the VM name?

  Hi all

  I use the latest version of VIX API to power on virtual machines on an ESX Server. I work with c# in Visual Studio 2012 and currently I have power on the virtual machine by using the following code:

  VMWareVirtualMachine virtualClientMachine = host. Open (vmMachinePath, 2100);

  While this works, I think it is better to be able to turn on the virtual machine when you know the name of the virtual machine and not the path. So, how can I get the path to the VM to the vmx file when I know the name of the virtual machine? For example, if my VM on the ESX Server is called WIN7GERMAN, how I can get the path and pass this to the host. Opening function?

  Thanks for any help or code.

  John

  VM names are not unique, that's why it is not supported.

  You can use VixHost_FindItems() and locate the VIX_PROPERTY_FOUND_ITEM_NAME property without papers and use the associated VIX_PROPERTY_FOUND_ITEM_LOCATION to get the value to pass to VixHost_OpenVM().  You have to deal with duplicate however names

• How can I disable the USE of INFORMATION in the .msi file?

  How can I disable the USE of INFORMATION in the .msi file? I used the wizard to activate online services, but after I installed is not there in the preferences. It reappears in some way after that I have run CD a few times, returns the INFORMATION of USE. Someone knows how to remove it in the wizard so that it doesn't make the use of Adobe? I want that this feature be turned off at installation time and not have to change this setting after installation.

  Hi Stephanie,

  Your question has already been followed in this thread How to disable the USE of INFORMATION in the file .msi - DRIVE DC. Please refer to the same thing.

  Kind regards

  Nicos

• Having problem to add code to the .vmx file.

  I try to add the code below in my .vmx file.

  mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE".
  MemTrimRate = 0
  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100".
  prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = 'TRUE '.
  sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "FALSE".
  I added my vmx file attachments, so you can take a look.
  I added these lines of code to the wrong file?

  After that, I am unable to open the virtual machine and get an error message:

  http://i50.Tinypic.com/33mwub9.PNG

  IM using Windows 7 pro on the host computer. With the help of VMware Workstation 8

  Help please! =)

  The file you connected, Windows 7 vmxf, isn't the .vmx config file and does not have the file, you should be editing!   Remove your Windows 7 vmxf file changes and edit the .vmx instead.  If you still have questions after that cleaning of the .vmxf file and modifying the .vmx file and then archive them both in a zip file and attach to a response message.

• How can I register all of the VMX files found in a list of stores of data with new names

  Hello-

  I'm trying to find a way to search through a given list of data and each discover a warehouse. VMX file, add this machine in the inventory I want to prepend the name of the machine as something different. That is to say, instead of "Machine1", I wish it were registetred as "auto-Computer1.  So, imagine I have an empty data center with 4 warehouses of data stored in a table $arrDatastoreToInclude.  I want to loop through each of these data stores and add all the VMX files I found back in the inventory.

  I know that I can use the following to get data warehouses I want:

  $dsindatacenter = get-data center $DataCenterName | Get-Datastore? | {$arrDatastoreToInclude - contains $_.} Name}

  But I have no idea how to analyze these data stores for the VMX files and what command to add them in the inventory.  Can anyone help?

  Try the following, it is based on the script of the position that Robert mentioned.

  You will need to provide a file (in $VMFolder) where unregistered virtual machines will be stored.

  The Set-VM cmdlet will take care of the rename.

  $DatacenterName = "MyDatacenter" $arrDatastoreToInclude = "DS1","DS2","DS3","DS4"
  
  $dc = Get-DataCenter $DataCenterName $dsindatacenter =  Get-Datastore -Datacenter $dc | ?{$arrDatastoreToInclude -contains $_.Name}
  
  $VMFolder = "MyFolder"
  $ESXHost = Get-VMHost -Location $dc | select -First 1
  foreach($Datastore in $dsindatacenter) {
      # Collect .vmx paths of registered VMs on the datastore     $registered = @{}
      Get-VM -Datastore $Datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} | %{$registered.Add($_.Name,$true)}}
  
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore    New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null    $unregistered = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse |         where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx" -and !$registered.ContainsKey($_.Name)})
      Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore   foreach($VMXFile in $unregistered) {
          New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder |
          Set-VM -Name ("Auto-" + $_.Name)
     }
  }
  

  Unregistered virtual machines will be saved with Displayname that is present in the VMX file.

  If this would cause a conflict with VM already registered, you can use the Name of the cmdlet New-VM parameter

• Need help updated the VMX file on several Virtual Machine

  All,

  Can anyone help with a problem I'm having?  Here is a brief explanation of what is happening and what we need to solve.

  Recently we found out that we need to add a line in the file VMX of several virtual machines.  In the past, I was able to do this, but would have cold start the virtual machine for the changes to take effect.  Starts cold won't be a problem, because we can program it.

  However, no one knows a way to add this line in the file VMX virtual machines in a cluster.

  Here's the line I need added:

  Devices.hotplug = "false".

  Here is a script that was used earlier (esx 3.0 days) to keep the VM tools updated on reboot.  At this point, if the virtual machine has been turned on, this change could not do through the UI.  However, this script worked to update the .vmx file and then we have cold reboots for the changes to take effect.

  Get-viserver - < Server > - < user > - < password >

  $viview = get-Cluster-name NOMCLUSTER | Get - VM | foreach-object {get-view ($_.ID)}
  $viview | {foreach-object
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterPowerOn = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterResume = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestStandby = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestShutdown = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".
  $_. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)
  }

  The exact script can be found in Disable HotPlug

• Create rectangles of information in the excel file... Help!

  I need help and have NO idea of what I'm doing. I have an excel file with thousands of lines, each with a column for the coordinate x, y-suface, the height and width of a rectangle. I need a script that will ask me to select the excel file, read the excel file and create rectangles of each of thousands of lines. I guess it would be simple enough for someone who knows what they're doing, but I have no idea where to start. I work in a windows environment and I have Illustrator CS4. Any suggestions? All scripts out there that could give me a start?

  you go, it's VBA code, I prefer to use it when I need to have Excel speak to Illustrator directly without exporting the data in Excel.

  to set up...

  -Open Excel

  -Press on Alt + F11 to bring up the editor

  -in the Tools menu, click references.

  -Add a reference to 'Adobe Illustrator CS5 type library' (or CS4 or your version)

  -in the perso.xls (or any other book) to add a Module. Personal is a comprehensive workbook that is always available. If you don't see it, go back to Excel and save a macro, anything will do. Who will create the personal folder.

  -type the following in this module

  Sub makeSquares()
      'carlos canto // 6/26/13
      'reads the active Excel workbook data to create squares in Illustrator
      'data is organized in rows as follows x, y, width, height
      'data has no headers, first row in cell "A1"
  
      Dim iapp As New Illustrator.Application
      Dim idoc As Illustrator.Document
      Dim isquare As Illustrator.PathItem
  
      Dim rowcount As Integer
      Dim x As Double
      Dim y As Double
      Dim w As Double
      Dim h As Double
  
      rowcount = Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
  
      Set idoc = iapp.Documents.Add
  
      For i = 1 To rowcount
          x = Cells(i, 1)
          y = Cells(i, 2)
          w = Cells(i, 3)
          h = Cells(i, 4)
  
          Set isquare = idoc.PathItems.Rectangle(y, x, w, h)
      Next
  
      Set isquare = Nothing
      Set idoc = Nothing
      Set iapp = Nothing
  End Sub
  

  -Save the personal book

  -to run, move the cursor anywhere inside the slot... End Sub and press F5

  For simplicity, launch illustrator before running the script

• How do the .vmx file

  How do the .vmx file to enter data for the serial ports?

  Open the file with Notepad (or your favorite text editor) upward, NOT working.

• By script of the vmx file changes?

  I have a number of existing VMs that I want to add some advanced configuration settings. Instead of using the GUI to add the values, I would like to automate the process. My plan is to write a script that turns off the virtual machine and adds the new values (isolation.tools.x or isolation.device.x) in the vmx files. Is - this safe/advisable to do so via a script? Someone at - it an example of existing script, they would be willing to share?

  If you want to do with just the VI Toolkit itself, then you will need to do something like this

  $vm = get - View (Get - VM NameofVMtoUpdate) USER.USER
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig = new-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. "Key ="lefthandsideofentry"
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. ' Value ='rigthhandsideofentry + '.
  $vm. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  Where

  • NameofVMtoUpdate is the name of the virtual machine that you want to update (from the vCenter inventory)

  • lefthandsideofentry is the entrance of advanced configuration, that you want to set

  • rigthhandsideofentry is the value of the advanced configuration entry

  As an alternative some of these people who hang out on the VI Toolkit region have implemented a set of Powershell extensions for the VI toolkit available from CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/vitoolkitextensions). Game-TkeVmx will allow you to set values (essentially the same code as above just rolled into a function to keep your code cleaner)

• Best practices for the .ini file, reading

  Hello LabViewers

  I have a pretty big application that uses a lot of communication material of various devices. I created an executable file, because the software runs on multiple sites. Some settings are currently hardcoded, others I put in a file .ini, such as the focus of the camera. The thought process was that this kind of parameters may vary from one place to another and can be defined by a user in the .ini file.

  I would now like to extend the application of the possibility of using two different versions of the device hardware key (an atomic Force Microscope). I think it makes sense to do so using two versions of the .ini file. I intend to create two different .ini files and a trained user there could still adjust settings, such as the focus of the camera, if necessary. The other settings, it can not touch. I also EMI to force the user to select an .ini to start the executable file using a dialog box file, unlike now where the ini (only) file is automatically read in. If no .ini file is specified, then the application would stop. This use of the .ini file has a meaning?

  My real question now solves on how to manage playback in the sector of .ini file. My estimate is that between 20-30 settings will be stored in the .ini file, I see two possibilities, but I don't know what the best choice or if im missing a third

  (1) (current solution) I created a vi in reading where I write all the .ini values to the global variables of the project. All other read only VI the value of global variables (no other writing) ommit competitive situations

  (2) I have pass the path to the .ini file in the subVIs and read the values in the .ini file if necessary. I can open them read-only.

  What is the best practice? What is more scalable? Advantages/disadvantages?

  Thank you very much

  1. I recommend just using a configuration file.  You have just a key to say what type of device is actually used.  This will make things easier on the user, because they will not have to keep selecting the right file.

  2. I use the globals.  There is no need to constantly open, get values and close a file when it is the same everywhere.  And since it's just a moment read at first, globals are perfect for this.

• Why NOT write the TAG ID information for the associated file? Windows Media Player 12

  I don't like iTunes and WMP12 looks worse.  Here's my problem...

  I edit the media information (sing or film etc...) by changing some information tag - track number, title etc...  Even when I select "Apply media information changes" in the "menu to organize the information of the tag does not change when I watch it by clicking the file and selecting Properties."  What gives?  I won't waste my time making sure that everything is organized and labeled correctly just so that WMP not attached this information in a file.  What worries me is that when I import the songs to another PC then all these information is lost.
  For example, I change the title of the track (you will need to change the title of the track, so WMP it sorts correctly because it does not support CD # in a multiple-CD box set)
  CD1 Title track 1
  CD1 Title track 2
  ...
  CD2 Title track 1
  CD2 Title track 2
  ...
  When I look at the file - nothing changes - UG!

  It sounds just like my question, so yesterday, I created a thread. I understand that it's quite old but thought if someone clicks on this thread, I might as well try and provide a response.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows8_1-pictures/WMP-12-does-not-apply-media-information-changes/ccf2e2cb-c2f3-4652-bd9f-fed3b6d8eb71

  Organize > options > privacy > (uncheck) Update music files by retrieving the news media on the internet

  I hope this helps!