pyvmlib

A simple library for controlling VMware vCenter / ESXi servers.

This library wraps up pyvmomi into something a little more friendly.

To use, create a Connection object and call methods on it. e.g.

with Connection(HOST, USER, PASS) as conn:
    for dev in conn.list_usb_devices_on_guest(VM_NAME):
        print("Got dev: {}".format(dev))

If your host has a self-signed certificate, set the ignore_ssl_error argument to True.

with Connection(INSECURE_HOST, USER, PASS, ignore_ssl_error=True) as conn:
    for dev in conn.list_usb_devices_on_guest(VM_NAME):
        print("Got dev: {}".format(dev))

Changelog

Pending Changes

Changes in master which have not been released will be documented here.

v2.2.0

• Add the 'interactive' optional argument to list_processes_in_vm. This is required to get information about expired processes that were started with the interactive flag.

v2.1.0

• Raise Exceptions for failed file uploads. We noted that if a file upload failed (perhaps if an intermediate HTTP proxy rejected the size of the upload file), there was no error raise. We now check that the HTTP server gives a success result code and raise an Exception if it doesn't.

v2.0.0

• Improvements to the Exceptions generated by the connect() method. If you were handling the underlying pyvmomi Exceptions before, you'll need to switch to handling VmNotFoundException, InvalidCredentialsException, and HostConnectException.