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Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:38:47 -0000

It's been forever and a day since I've worked with vix. If you have the commands to do this while logged into Solaris, adapting it for use with vix shouldn't be too difficult.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Saravanan Rajendiran — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 03:12:56 -0000

Can you please send me the command to change the Ip of Guest OS which was installed with Solaris OS

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Wuyifan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:46:06 -0000

hi, i was wondering if this solution would useful for a free license ESXI 4 ...
thx at advance

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Tony31 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:20:31 -0000

Did you happen to figure this out? I'm in the same scenario and have zero scripting abilities. Any reference or advice is appreciated.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

hard disk recovery — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:26:20 -0000

When you run just $net1 in powershell, do you get more than one object returned? If so, you might want to try changing this portion:
set-vmguestnetworkinterface -vmguestinterface $net1[0]

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

cemal dur — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:28:19 -0000

Hello
I need a script to change of solaris guest's ip address ? is it possible that changing of solaris guest ip without login to solaris os ?

Thank you.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Nazzareno — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:09:11 -0000

Hi,
one question: with vmrun the guestos must running in ESX. Is it possible to change the ip address in a guestos Windows that is powered off?

With Linux I can mount the .vmdk and edit /etc/network/interfaces... but in Windows?

Thanks,
Nazzareno

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:50:35 -0000

I tried the command and here's the message :

Error: Cannot open VM: [snap-30f94840-Cluster-A01-AMS2300-17] Par1CX4-09/Par1CX4
-09.vmx, The virtual machine cannot be found

The lun name is correct, so is the machine name, and the files are well present in the mentioned directory ...

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:04:07 -0000

The new PowerCLI should have something similar to what you are looking for.
I'll likely write up a new post with this next week.

-C

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:07:25 -0000

i installed it on the VC and I just want to change my replicated VM's IP because my desaster recovery VLAN is different from the production one. I have no extended VLANs ... so basicaly I can't use VBS and have to do my changes through the VC and address the VM through the host ...

If you have any other idea that may work in this context ... I take every advise on the subject.

Goal is to change all my VMs IP starting from a matching table between the production IP / VMName / Destination IP.
I also need to update the Gateway, Mask and DNS.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:58:38 -0000

Depends on what you are trying to do. The PowerCLI can be installed anywhere
that can connect to your virtual center, and be used to manage it.

-C

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:56:18 -0000

Oki, thanks ... I'll get back to you. By the way ... is Powershell to be installed on the VM ? or can it run remotely from the virtual center ?

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:44:44 -0000

“[sanstorage1] test/test.vmx” is what I've used, so no additional / needed.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:41:13 -0000

I already corrected the host part using https://hostname/sdk ... i'll try the "[volume] vmname/vmname.vmx" part. Should i add a / between [Volume] and vmname/vmname.vmx ?

Thanks for your help.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:38:18 -0000

Check that the VM is powered on, and on the host you are connecting to. When
specifying the host, use the path to the sdk, so https://hostname/sdk.
Finally, instead of "vmfs/volumes/volume/vm.vmx" I'd use the name & path how
they appear in the VI Client: "[Volume] vmname/vmname.vmx".

Let me know how those changes work out.

-C

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:31:58 -0000

vmrun -T esx -h esxhostname -u root -p password -gu domain\user -gp password runProgramInGuest “/vmfs/volumes/lunname/file.vmx” c:\windows\system32\netsh int ip set address “Local Area Connection” static 10.0.0.10 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1

And the message is simply "can't find the VM" ... i first had host connection error, but solved it ... everything is ok except the VM can't be found.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:16:50 -0000

Can you reply with the command line and error you are receiving?

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

animal72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:07:20 -0000

I get a message : can't find the VM
Everything is fine, host connection works, every path settings are correct ... still it won't find the VMX file ...

Thanks for helping me ... I'm quite stuck with it.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:42:15 -0000

Indeed. Thanks!

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

ClubPenguinCheats — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:39:36 -0000

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I hope that we will see more from you.

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:37:24 -0000

No problem!

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Medela metro bag — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:59:58 -0000

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Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

professionalvmware — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:10 -0000

There is quite a bit that needs to get changed...See the bracketed parts below.

vmrun -T esx -h [youresxhosthere] -u [esx user] -p [esx password] -gu [Guest User] -gp [Guest Password] runProgramInGuest “[Path] to/the.vmx” c:\windows\system32\netsh int ip set address “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.15.25 255.255.255.0 192.168.15.1

Re: VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

Ravi — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:55:34 -0000

i tried the above command replacing the respective gateway and ips .... it says "Error Unable to connect to host" ... Am i supposed to replace anything else in the command other than the IPs ???