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Comment on Install Virtual Box Additions on Fedora 14 by Deem

Deem — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:42:46 +0000

On Ubuntu the most common mistake people do is installing kernel headers that do not match ‘uname -r’.

Then simply run /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup.

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by Deem

Deem — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:58:43 +0000

Hey DM,

The line you refer to is fine.

If you code it in C++ then you need to do a proper casting, and C++ casting is out of scope of this article.

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by DM

DM — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:49:18 +0000

I have a small doubt in the last line

TaskInfo result = (TaskInfo)objs[0].propSet[0].val;
objs[0].propSet[0].val is of DynamicProperty type. I wonder how can we cast it like that. I am doing it in C++. However when i store it in a DynamicProperty and then i set my TaskInfo DynamicProperty to this value. Something like
result->setDynamicProperty(objs[0].propSet[0].val);

The problem is my result->getState() is always NULL.

Comment on How to run Java samples from VMware SDK on Ubuntu 10.04 by Deem

Deem — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:51:51 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for your comment!

I know about your toolkit and like it very much, but personally prefer dealing with “raw” APIs: for me it is more fun that way.

Also IMO AXIS is one of the greatest tools around and getting to know it beneficial in lots of ways.

Comment on How to run Java samples from VMware SDK on Ubuntu 10.04 by Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:01:16 +0000

If you use vSphere Java API, you don’t need to download AXIS at all. The API includes a faster and lighter Web Service engine.

-Steve

Comment on How to run Java samples from VMware SDK by Deem

Deem — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:23:04 +0000

See update at http://blog.fedorov.ca/2010/07/05/how-to-run-java-samples-ubuntu-10-04/

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by David

David — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:23:27 +0000

Deem, not setting the key was the root of all my problems. Thanks!

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by Deem

Deem — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:57:27 +0000

David,

See this posting.

Sorry about me confusing assigning a task description with assigning a custom label/summary.

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by Deem

Deem — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:15:07 +0000

David,

Have you noticed that this method requires Task.Update privilege?

I’m not sure about Steve’s Toolkit: I know it, but I don’t use any, all my code is raw calls to VMware API from C#.

Let’s me try to get it working over the weekend, I’m a little busy tomorrow.

Comment on How to Retrieve Task Info by David

David — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:34:25 +0000

Hey Deem, thanks for the response. I posted a somewhat related question on the VI Java API forum (https://sourceforge.net/projects/vijava/forums/forum/826592/topic/3708248), and have been trying to use that.

Basically, I added a setTaskDescription method to Steve Jin’s code, following his style.

Sad as it may be, that didn’t work, either. I feel like I am close. There’s got to be a way to set those descriptions.