[Viperltoolkit-user] Util::Trace and &CloneVm do not work

[Stefan S. <sts...@on...>]

Hello Folks!

I'm new to the ViPerlToolkit. Yesterday, I made my first hands on
experience with a small script that should be able to start, stop and
clone a VM on our ESX server.

Everything worked fine until I started to create my CloneVm method,
that makes use of the CloneVM_Task method of the VirtualMachine MOB.

Additionally I didn't want to pass the username, password and
webservice variables via commandline, so I replaced Util::connect
with Vim::login -- now I cannot access the Util::trace function and
when I run my CloneVm method I get the following error:

"Can't call method "serialize" on unblessed reference at
C:/Perl/site/lib/VMware/VIM2Stub.pm line 366."

Would somebody please be as kind as to review the punch of code below
and tell me of any mistakes I made?

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use VMware::VIM2Runtime;
use VMware::VILib;

Vim::login (service_url => $webservice,
            user_name   => $username,
            password    => $password       );

my $vm      = Vim::find_entity_view
                      (view_type => "VirtualMachine",
                          filter => { "name" => $vm_name });

&CloneVm;

sub CloneVm
{
    my ($vm) = @_;

    my $relocatespec = eval {
           VirtualMachineRelocateSpec->new
             (datastore => $vm->datastore,
              host      => $vm->summary->runtime->host,
              pool      => $vm->resourcePool)
    } or Util::trace (0,"ARGH");

    my $clonespec    = eval {
          VirtualMachineCloneSpec->new
             (powerOn  => 0,
              template => 0,
              location => $relocatespec)
    } or Util::trace (0,"GRML");

    $vm->CloneVM( folder => $vm->parent,
                  name   => Opts::get_option("vmname_dest"),
                  spec   => $clonespec                      );

}

Vim::logout;

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Regards,

Stefan.

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Stefan Schlesinger //////////////////////////////////////////// ///////