Re: [Pyvix-discuss] Question on Getting Started Pyvix

[Johan J. <joh...@us...>]

No.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to get very far.  I had to modif=
y the
findVixDir() in _support.py to find the vix.dll to be the following (and =
I
sure there are better, more pythonic ways of doing this -- I am open to a=
ny
suggestions):

def findVixDir():
    if PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS:
        import _winreg
        r =3D _winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
        try:
            serverInstKey =3D _winreg.OpenKey(r,
              r'SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware VIX'
              )
            try:
                serverInstDir =3D _winreg.QueryValueEx(
                    serverInstKey, 'InstallPath'
                  )[0]
            finally:
                _winreg.CloseKey(serverInstKey)

            serverKey =3D _winreg.OpenKey(r,
              r'SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.'
              )
            try:
                serverType =3D _winreg.QueryValueEx(
                    serverKey, 'Core'
                  )[0]
            finally:
                _winreg.CloseKey(serverKey)
        finally:
            r.Close()

        vixDir =3D os.path.join(serverInstDir, os.pardir, 'VMware VIX')
        if vixDir.endswith(os.sep):
            vixDir =3D vixDir[:-len(os.sep)]
        vixDir =3D os.path.normpath(vixDir)

        vixDlls =3D []
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(vixDir):
            for name in files:
                if name.lower().endswith('x.dll') :
                    vixDlls.append(root[len(vixDir)+1:])
        if serverType =3D=3D 'VMware Workstation':
            for dll in vixDlls:
                if dll[0] =3D=3D'w':
                    vixDir =3D os.path.join(vixDir, dll)
        else:
            for dll in vixDlls:
                if dll[0] =3D=3D's':
                    vixDir =3D os.path.join(vixDir, dll)

        return vixDir

Once I made this change so that it finds the vix.dll, it all goes into la=
-la
land when you try to establish a connection to the host with:

   h =3D Host()

It never returns.

 - Johan


------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:55:59 PM MDT
From: "Eric Buehl" <eri...@gm...>
To: "Johan Jeffery" <joh...@us...>Cc:
pyv...@li...
Subject: Re: [Pyvix-discuss] Question on Getting Started Pyvix

> Hey Johan,
> =

> Are you able to use pyvix otherwise?  Is it only the test scripts that
don't
> function?  If so, I wouldn't worry about it -- as far as I know, these
tests
> are only there to demonstrate the broken API provided by VMWare.  I hav=
en't
> tried with a more recent version of VMWare server, but hopefully some o=
f
> these things have been fixed.
> =

> Eric
> =

> =

> On 7/23/07, Johan Jeffery <joh...@us...> wrote:
> >
> > In downloading and trying pyvix, I'm getting stuck. After installing
> > pyvix, I
> > tried the tests.  The tests crash because it can't find a site-config=
=2E In
> > looking at _support.py, it is trying to load pyvix_test_site_config. =
What
> > is
> > this and what should there be in it? Or where do I get one or how can=
 I
> > create
> > one?
> >
> > I'm stuck without it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > - Johan
> >
> >
> >
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