What I am trying to accomplish is to connect to an existing VMware VM and then access the virtual eth connections. Once a particular NIC is found, I want to toggle its state from UNPLUGGED to PLUGGED and vice versa.
To accomplish that I use the following code to create a new eth connection to play with:
#Invoke ReconfigVM_Task
request = VI.ReconfigVM_TaskRequestMsg()
_this = request.new__this(vm._mor)
_this.set_attribute_type(vm._mor.get_attribute_type())
request.set_element__this(_this)
spec = request.new_spec()
#Add a NIC.
dev_change = spec.new_deviceChange()
dev_change.set_element_operation("add")
nic_ctlr = VI.ns0.VirtualE1000_Def("nic_ctlr").pyclass()
nic_backing = VI.ns0.VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo_Def("nic_backing").pyclass()
nic_backing.set_element_deviceName(label)
nic_ctlr.set_element_addressType("generated")
nic_ctlr.set_element_backing(nic_backing)
nic_ctlr.set_element_key(4)
dev_change.set_element_device(nic_ctlr)
spec.set_element_deviceChange([dev_change])
request.set_element_spec(spec)
ret = hostcon._proxy.ReconfigVM_Task(request)._returnval
#Wait for the task to finish
task =VITask(ret, hostcon)
status = task.wait_for_state([task.STATE_SUCCESS, task.STATE_ERROR])
if status == task.STATE_SUCCESS:
print"VM %s successfully reconfigured"% vm
elif status == task.STATE_ERROR:
print"Error reconfiguring vm: %s"% vm, task.get_error_message()
As a result of the above code, I see the following gets created:
eth3 :1Gb/s TP UNPLUGGED|UP --None-- -NoIPv6-But now I am stuck at trying to change this UNPLUGGED field. Can this even be changed at the VM level? or this part needs to be changed at virtual switch level? Asking because I found online that the "PLUGGED/UNPLUGGED" information comes from the virtual switch entry? Is that true?