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

[Eric B. <eri...@gm...>]

It looks like VMWare released a newer version of the VIX api which appears
to be included in version 6 of workstation.  I wouldn't be surprised if this
had something to do with it. Perhaps we should see whats in the changelog
between versions.

Eric

On 8/2/07, Johan Jeffery <joh...@us...> wrote:
>
> No.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to get very far.  I had to modify
> 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
> any
> suggestions):
>
> def findVixDir():
>     if PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS:
>         import _winreg
>         r = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
>         try:
>             serverInstKey = _winreg.OpenKey(r,
>               r'SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware VIX'
>               )
>             try:
>                 serverInstDir = _winreg.QueryValueEx(
>                     serverInstKey, 'InstallPath'
>                   )[0]
>             finally:
>                 _winreg.CloseKey(serverInstKey)
>
>             serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(r,
>               r'SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.'
>               )
>             try:
>                 serverType = _winreg.QueryValueEx(
>                     serverKey, 'Core'
>                   )[0]
>             finally:
>                 _winreg.CloseKey(serverKey)
>         finally:
>             r.Close()
>
>         vixDir = os.path.join(serverInstDir, os.pardir, 'VMware VIX')
>         if vixDir.endswith(os.sep):
>             vixDir = vixDir[:-len(os.sep)]
>         vixDir = os.path.normpath(vixDir)
>
>         vixDlls = []
>         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 == 'VMware Workstation':
>             for dll in vixDlls:
>                 if dll[0] =='w':
>                     vixDir = os.path.join(vixDir, dll)
>         else:
>             for dll in vixDlls:
>                 if dll[0] =='s':
>                     vixDir = 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 = 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
> haven't
> > tried with a more recent version of VMWare server, but hopefully some of
> > 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.
> 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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