change mac address

[Nick Wiesmueller]

Hi,

Is it possible to modify the MAC address of a VM using pysphere? I see
that it is possible using the vpshere api but I can't determine how to
do this with pysphere.

Thanks,

Nick

[Seba]

Hi Nick,
Try this code, it will set a manual mac address to the first net
device in a VM.

Hope it helps!

Sebastian.


from pysphere import *
from pysphere.resources import VimService_services as VI
from pysphere.vi_task import VITask

new_mac = "00:0c:29:ac:70:96"
vm_path = "[datastore1] Windows XP Home Edition - SP3/Windows XP Home
Edition - SP3.vmx"

#Connect to the server
s = VIServer()
s.connect("host", "user", "password")

#Get VM
vm = s.get_vm_by_path(vm_path)

#Find Virtual Nic device
net_device = None
for dev in vm.properties.config.hardware.device:
    if dev._type in ["VirtualE1000", "VirtualE1000e",
                     "VirtualPCNet32", "VirtualVmxnet"]:
        net_device = dev._obj
        break

if not net_device:
    s.disconnect()
    raise Exception("The vm seems to lack a Virtual Nic")

#Set Nic macAddress to Manual and set address
net_device.set_element_addressType("Manual")
net_device.set_element_macAddress(new_mac)

#Invoke ReconfigVM_Task
request = VI.ReconfigVM_TaskRequestMsg()
_this = request.new__this(vm._mor)
_this.set_attribute_type(vm._mor.get_attribute_type())
request.set_element__this(_this)
spec = request.new_spec()
dev_change = spec.new_deviceChange()
dev_change.set_element_device(net_device)
dev_change.set_element_operation("edit")
spec.set_element_deviceChange([dev_change])
request.set_element_spec(spec)
ret = s._proxy.ReconfigVM_Task(request)._returnval

#Wait for the task to finish
task = VITask(ret, s)

status = task.wait_for_state([task.STATE_SUCCESS, task.STATE_ERROR])
if status == task.STATE_SUCCESS:
    print "VM successfully reconfigured"
elif status == task.STATE_ERROR:
    print "Error reconfiguring vm:", task.get_error_message()

#Disconnect from the server
s.disconnect()

On Jan 9, 1:52 pm, Nick Wiesmueller <nick.wiesmuel...@singlewire.com>
wrote:

[Nick Wiesmueller]

That works perfectly. Thank you!