Technical note. Provides an introduction to VIX programming. The documents VIX interfaces for C, Perl, and COM.
Describes the 1.12 vmrun utility. Sample Code: – Shows how to open a virtual machine, power it on, and power it off. – Demonstrates how to power on, suspend, and resume a virtual machine. – Opens a virtual machine, creates a snapshot, and reverts to snapshot state. – Demonstrates how to perform operations in a guest virtual machine. – Finds all running virtual machines and opens a handle to each.
Mar 17, 2018 - The 1.17.0 version of VMware VIX is provided as a free download on our website. This free software is a product of VMware, Inc. VIX isn't provided as a standalone product now, but it is still shipped with Workstation. You can install Workstation 15 to obtain VIX 1.17.
– How to use callback procedures with asynchronous VIX functions. For Linux make and for Windows nmake. VIX API 1.14 Released 1 DEC 2014 Download VIX 1.14 was the release for VMware Fusion 7 and Workstation 11. Documentation Resources: technical note. Provides an introduction to VIX programming.
The documents VIX interfaces for C, Perl, and COM. Describes the 1.12 vmrun utility. Sample Code: – Shows how to open a virtual machine, power it on, and power it off.
– Demonstrates how to power on, suspend, and resume a virtual machine. – Opens a virtual machine, creates a snapshot, and reverts to snapshot state.
– Demonstrates how to perform operations in a guest virtual machine. – Finds all running virtual machines and opens a handle to each. – How to use callback procedures with asynchronous VIX functions. For Linux make and for Windows nmake. VIX API 1.13 Released 11 OCT 2013 Download VIX 1.13 was the release for VMware Fusion 6 and Workstation 10. Documentation Resources: technical note. Provides an introduction to VIX programming.
The documents VIX interfaces for C, Perl, and COM. Describes the 1.12 vmrun utility.
Sample Code: – Shows how to open a virtual machine, power it on, and power it off. – Demonstrates how to power on, suspend, and resume a virtual machine. – Opens a virtual machine, creates a snapshot, and reverts to snapshot state. – Demonstrates how to perform operations in a guest virtual machine. – Finds all running virtual machines and opens a handle to each. – How to use callback procedures with asynchronous VIX functions.
For Linux make and for Windows nmake. VIX API 1.12 Released 24 SEP 2012 Download VIX 1.12 was the standalone VIX release for vSphere 5.x. Documentation Resources: technical note. Provides an introduction to VIX programming. The documents VIX interfaces for C, Perl, and COM. Describes the 1.12 vmrun utility.
Sample Code: – Shows how to open a virtual machine, power it on, and power it off. – Demonstrates how to power on, suspend, and resume a virtual machine. – Opens a virtual machine, creates a snapshot, and reverts to snapshot state. – Demonstrates how to perform operations in a guest virtual machine. – Finds all running virtual machines and opens a handle to each.
– How to use callback procedures with asynchronous VIX functions. For Linux make and for Windows nmake. VIX API 1.11 Released 14 SEP 2011 This is the standalone VIX release for vSphere 5, Workstation 8, and earlier platform products.
Documentation Resources: technical note. Provides an introduction to VIX programming. The documents VIX interfaces for C, Perl, and COM. Describes the 1.11 vmrun utility. Sample Code: – Shows how to open a virtual machine, power it on, and power it off. – Demonstrates how to power on, suspend, and resume a virtual machine. – Opens a virtual machine, creates a snapshot, and reverts to snapshot state.
– Demonstrates how to perform operations in a guest virtual machine. – Finds all running virtual machines and opens a handle to each. – How to use callback procedures with asynchronous VIX functions. For Linux make and for Windows nmake. VIX API 1.1.5 Released 28 AUG 2008 Documentation Resources: The for VMware Workstation 6.0.5. The includes an introduction to VIX programming.
Sample Code: – A simple program that powers on and off a virtual machine. – A simple program that suspends a running virtual machine. – A simple program that takes a snapshot of a virtual machine.
– A program that describes how to use the API asynchronously. – A program that describes how to integrate the API in another application that may use a UI event pump.
About the VIX API The VIX API (or “Vix”) is a library for writing scripts and programs to manipulate virtual machines. It is high-level, easy to use, and practical for both script developers and application programmers.
The VIX API is designed for three kinds of users:. Technically Adventurous Users – For example, dedicated IT personnel in an organization building their own in-house tools. Partners – Software vendors using Vix to integrate VMware products with their own products or to build management products specifically for virtual machines. VMware Engineering – VMware uses Vix in its own products as a general abstraction layer between core virtual machine processes and associated service processes. The VIX API runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows95 or later) and Linux platforms (kernel 2.4.x or later recommended). It supports programs written in C, Perl, and COM (Visual Basic, VBscript, C#). Redistributable Code and Sample Code As noted in the End User License Agreement, the VIX API allows you to build and distribute your own applications.
To facilitate this, the following files are designated as redistributable for the purpose of that agreement:. VixAllProducts.lib and VixAllProductsd.lib. vix.lib and vix.dll. vixCOM.dll. libvixAllProducts.so. libvix.so Redistribution of the open source libraries included with the VIX API is governed by their respective open source license agreements. The VIX API also includes sample code, which you can use as a starting point for your own programs.
Code is delivered in the Samples directory installed with VMware VIX. A Makefile is provided for Linux, and an nMakefile for Windows. Installing the VIX API On VMware Server or VMware Workstation, you do not need to install any additional VIX API components. Vix libraries are installed by default under “VMware VIX” or vmware-vix. To compile programs on these systems, see.
To control ESX/ESXi or VMware Server remotely from another machine, you need header files vix.h and vmbasictypes.h, as well as one or more library files. You can get these files in one of two ways:. Use the Vix standalone installer to get the files needed to compile a program. Copy these files from a VMware Server host, then use them as described in the section. To install the VIX API files on Linux:.
Download the tar-gzip package. For example: wget. As superuser, extract the package: sudo tar zxpf VMware-vix-110068.i386.tar.gz.
Change directory and, as superuser, run the VMware installer: cd vmware-vix-distrib sudo./vmware-install.pl. Read the EULA and type 'yes' if you agree to its terms. You can accept most defaults by typing Enter when prompted.
To uninstall the VIX API on Linux, run the following program: vmware-installer -u vmware-vix. Upgrading an Earlier Installation If you are using older Vix libraries, VMware recommends that you upgrade those libraries using the standalone installer. The standalone installer provides a current version of the wrapper library, which allows programs to communicate with any Vix library, regardless of version or target architecture.
The wrapper library dynamically loads appropriate library files at connection time. Otherwise you must link your program to a Vix library that matches the server version. This gets inconvenient if your program communicates with more than one version of the server.
VMware Tools in virtual machines should be kept up-to-date with the VMware version on the host. When upgrading, also update VMware Tools in all guest operating systems. The VIX API relies on a current matching version of VMware Tools to perform many operations.
Upgrading the Vix libraries replaces the older header files, vix.h and vmbasictypes.h with newer header files. The header files are installed at the following locations by default:. On a Windows system:. C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX vix.h. C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX vmbasictypes.h.
On a Linux system:. /usr/include/vmware-vix/vix.h. /usr/include/vmware-vix/vmbasictypes.h Whether or not you use the wrapper library, your programs may call only the functions supported by the host. If you communicate with an older host, you cannot use newer features. Compiling on Windows With Wrapper Library To use the wrapper library with VIX 1.6, you need Visual Studio 2005 (Visual C release 8.0) or later.
To compile code on Windows using the wrapper library, use the following procedure. Files are in the C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX folder. Add the header file to an include statement in your source code: #include 'vix.h'. Program code here. Compile for, and link with, the multithreaded version of the C runtime library.
For Workstation 6.0.1 and later, you may use either the debug or the non-debug version of this library. For Workstation 6.0.0 and earlier, you must use the non-debug version. To compile and link with the debug version ( libcmtd.lib) use compiler options /MTd /nodefaultlib:libcmtd.lib.
To compile and link with the non-debug version ( libcmt.lib) use compiler options /MT /nodefaultlib:libcmt.lib. Compile code to link with these files:. VixAllProducts.lib for non-debug, or VixAllProductsd.lib for debug. kernel32.lib. user32.lib. advapi32.lib. ole32.lib.
oleaut32.lib. ws232.lib. shell32.lib.
To compile your code for use with Workstation 6.5:. Make the required DLL files available to your program, either by placing them in the same directory as your executable, or by placing them in the system directory ( C: WINDOWS system32). The easiest option is to copy DLL files from the directory C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX Workstation-6.5.0 32bit or 64bit. vix.dll (or vixd.dll if you are using debug C runtime library).
iconv.dll (or inconvd.dll if you are using debug C runtime library). libxml2.dll (or libxml2d.dll if you are using debug C runtime library). libeay32.dll. ssleay32.dll. vmcryptolib.dll.
zlib1.dll. Add the header file to an include statement in your source code: #include 'vix.h'. Program code here. Compile your code to link in vix.lib statically.
Compile for, and link with, the multithreaded version of the C runtime library. You may use either the debug or the non-debug version of this library. To compile and link with the debug version ( libcmtd.lib) use compiler option /MTd with Microsoft Visual Studio. To compile and link with the non-debug version ( libcmt.lib) use compiler option /MT with Microsoft Visual Studio. To compile your code for use with Workstation 6.0.x:. Make the required DLL files available to your program, either by placing them in the same directory as your executable, or by placing them in the system directory ( C: WINDOWS system32).
The easiest option is to copy DLL files from the directory C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX ws-2 32bit or ws-3 32bit. vix.dll. iconv.dll.
libxml2.dll. libeay32.dll. ssleay32.dll. vmcryptolib.dll. zlib1.dll. Add the header file to an include statement in your source code: #include 'vix.h'. Program code here.
Compile your code to link in vix.lib statically. Compile for, and link with, the multithreaded version of the C runtime library. You must use the non-debug version of this library ( libcmt.lib) by using compiler option /MT with Microsoft Visual Studio. To compile your code for use with VMware Server 1.0:. Make the following DLL files available to your program, either by placing them in the same directory as your executable, or by placing them in your system directory ( C: WINDOWS system32). The easiest option is to copy DLL files from the directory C: Program Files VMware VMware VIX server-1 32bit.
vix.dll. ssleay32.dll. libeay32.dll. Add the header file to an include statement in your source code: #include 'vix.h'. Program code here. Compile your code to link in vix.lib statically.
To compile your code with VMware Server or VMware Workstation installed:. Add an include statement in your source code for the header file: #include 'vix.h'. Program code here.
Compile your application, linking statically to libvix.so, as in the following examples. To link the VMware Workstation library on a 32-bit machine: gcc -I/usr/include/vmware-vix -o vixapp vixapp.c /usr/lib/vmware-vix/Workstation-6.5.0/32bit/libvix.so. To link the VMware Server 2.0 library on a 32-bit machine: gcc -I/usr/include/vmware-vix -o vixapp vixapp.c /usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib/VIServer-2.0.0/32bit/libvix.so. To link the old VMware Server 1.x library: gcc -I/usr/include/vmware-vix -o vixapp vixapp.c /usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib/server-1/32bit/libvix.so.