Virtual Machine Mount Tools Installer
Mounts the VMware Tools CD installer as a CD-ROM for the guest operating system.
To monitor the status of the tools install, clients should check the tools status, toolsVersionStatus and toolsRunningStatus
Required privileges: VirtualMachine.Interact.ToolsInstall
The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId
, in this case VirtualMachine/{moId}
.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
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InvalidState: if the virtual machine is not running, or the VMware Tools CD is already mounted.
VmToolsUpgradeFault: if the VMware Tools CD failed to mount.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
"faultMessage": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"arg": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
}
],
"message": "string"
}
]
}