VmFolder info

[rodolphewachter]

Hi,
How to search Parent folder of a Virtual machine ?

Thanks,

[dougm]

Can you be more specific? And using govc or the API directly?

[rodolphewachter]

Hi dougm,

Actually, i'm show virtual machines information with the sample file , except the name of the parent folder and i don't have any idea for query this task. (i use the API directly)

Thanks,

[dougm]

Sure, here's an example:

modified   examples/virtualmachines/main.go
@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ func main() {
 	// Retrieve summary property for all machines
 	// Reference: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.VirtualMachine.html
 	var vms []mo.VirtualMachine
-	err = v.Retrieve(ctx, []string{"VirtualMachine"}, []string{"summary"}, &vms)
+	err = v.Retrieve(ctx, []string{"VirtualMachine"}, []string{"summary", "parent"}, &vms)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
 	// Print summary per vm (see also: govc/vm/info.go)
-
+	pc := c.PropertyCollector()
 	for _, vm := range vms {
-		fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", vm.Summary.Config.Name, vm.Summary.Config.GuestFullName)
+		var parent mo.Folder
+		pc.RetrieveOne(ctx, *vm.Parent, []string{"name"}, &parent)
+		fmt.Printf("%s/%s: %s\n", parent.Name, vm.Summary.Config.Name, vm.Summary.Config.GuestFullName)
 	}
 }

[rodolphewachter]

Thanks for your good response.
I have another question with folder if it doesn't bother you.
It's possible to show the entire path : exemple : folder1/folder2/folder3/Vm1

Thanks,

[dougm]

In that case, you may want to use Finder instead of ContainerView. In this case, InventoryPath is set for all VMs:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/examples"
	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/find"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Connect and login to ESX or vCenter
	c, err := examples.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	defer c.Logout(ctx)

	finder := find.NewFinder(c.Client, false)
	dc, err := finder.DatacenterOrDefault(ctx, "")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	finder.SetDatacenter(dc)

	vms, err := finder.VirtualMachineList(ctx, "*")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	for _, vm := range vms {
		fmt.Println(vm.InventoryPath)
	}
}

[rodolphewachter]

Many thanks Doug, i close this issue.