How to set vApp options in rbvmomi2

[bastelfreak]

Hi!

(I'm not a vmware expert, so my terminology might be wrong)

I maintain beaker-vcloud and beaker-vmware. Those tools basically create short-lived VMs where some integration tests are executed. we use the following to create a VM from a template:

https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker-vcloud/blob/e9ab7fc8734066338414abe18df537e48f1ab36a/lib/beaker/hypervisor/vcloud.rb#L74-L163

Now I need to adjust it to pass vApp options as well. Is that supported by rbvmomi2 at the moment? I'm already passing guest information like this:

extraConfig: [ { key: 'guestinfo.hostname', value: host['vmhostname'], },],

(https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker-vcloud/blob/e9ab7fc8734066338414abe18df537e48f1ab36a/lib/beaker/hypervisor/vcloud.rb#L82-L85)

But that's not exactly the same as vApp options? I can quest for the above attribute via vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.hostname". But vApp Options are at the guestinfo.ofvenv.* namespace? And I cannot write them via extraConfig: [ { key: 'guestinfo.ovfenv.hostname', value: host['vmhostname'], },],?

[bastelfreak]

Edit: this is a similar request as vmware/govmomi#2261, just for the ruby lib, not for go.

I just tried it again with:

RbVmomi::VIM.VirtualMachineConfigSpec(
        annotation: 'Base template:  ' + host['template'] + "\n" +
          'Creation time:  ' + Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') + "\n\n" +
          'CI build link:  ' + (ENV['BUILD_URL'] || 'Deployed independently of CI') +
          'department:     ' + @options[:department] +
          'project:        ' + @options[:project],
        extraConfig: [
          {
            key: 'guestinfo.ovfenv.test1',
            value: 'foo',
          },
          {
            key: 'guestinfo.test2',
            value: 'bar',
          },
        ],
      )

And vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.test2" returns bar, vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfenv" returns the default vApp options from the template. There's an Option test1, but not set to foo. Interestingly vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfenv.test1" works and returns foo.

[bastelfreak]

I'm not yet sure about the differences between classId vs id vs instanceId. My latest approach was:

      vAppConfigSpec = RbVmomi::VIM.VmConfigSpec(
        property: [RbVmomi::VIM.VAppPropertySpec(
          operation: 'add',
          info: RbVmomi::VIM.VAppPropertyInfo(
            key: 1,
            category: 'network',
            type: 'string',
            value: 'test',
            classId: 'hostname',
            id: 'hostname'
          ),
        )],
      )

      configSpec = RbVmomi::VIM.VirtualMachineConfigSpec(vAppConfig: vAppConfigSpec)

This at least creates the VM, but when I afterwards check the VM in the vsphere client the vApp option isn't set.

[bastelfreak]

from the MOB. I got to VirtualMachineConfigInfo, then vAppConfig:

and second property is the hostname I want to set:

[bastelfreak]

I'm not really sure if I need to wrap RbVmomi::VIM.VAppPropertyInfo in RbVmomi::VIM.VAppPropertySpec?

[bastelfreak]

@agrare do you've any hints here for me?

[bastelfreak]

@agrare @Fryguy hey hey, any chance one of you can take a look here? I'm a bit lost in those nested objects :(

[Fryguy]

@agrare Can you take a look here?

@bastelfreak I moved this discussion from the general ManageIQ discussions page to this one specifically for rbvmomi2 (you didn't miss it - I just created it :D )