Virtual Machine Get Guest
Information about VMware Tools and about the virtual machine from the perspective of VMware Tools.
Information about the guest operating system is available in VirtualCenter. Guest operating system information reflects the last known state of the virtual machine. For powered on machines, this is current information. For powered off machines, this is the last recorded state before the virtual machine was powered off.
The unique identifier for the managed object to which the property 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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{
"_typeName": "string",
"toolsStatus": "string",
"toolsVersionStatus": "string",
"toolsVersionStatus2": "string",
"toolsRunningStatus": "string",
"toolsVersion": "string",
"toolsInstallType": "string",
"guestId": "string",
"guestFamily": "string",
"guestFullName": "string",
"guestDetailedData": "string",
"hostName": "string",
"ipAddress": "string",
"net": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"network": "string",
"ipAddress": [
"string"
],
"macAddress": "string",
"connected": false,
"deviceConfigId": 0,
"dnsConfig": {
"dhcp": false,
"hostName": "string",
"domainName": "string",
"ipAddress": [
"string"
],
"searchDomain": [
"string"
]
},
"ipConfig": {
"ipAddress": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"ipAddress": "string",
"prefixLength": 0,
"origin": "string",
"state": "string",
"lifetime": "string"
}
],
"dhcp": {
"ipv6": {
"enable": false,
"config": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
},
"ipv4": {
"enable": false,
"config": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
}
},
"autoConfigurationEnabled": false
},
"netBIOSConfig": {
"mode": "string"
}
}
],
"ipStack": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"dnsConfig": {
"dhcp": false,
"hostName": "string",
"domainName": "string",
"ipAddress": [
"string"
],
"searchDomain": [
"string"
]
},
"ipRouteConfig": {
"ipRoute": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"network": "string",
"prefixLength": 0,
"gateway": {
"ipAddress": "string",
"device": "string"
}
}
]
},
"ipStackConfig": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
],
"dhcpConfig": {
"ipv6": {
"enable": false,
"config": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
},
"ipv4": {
"enable": false,
"config": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"disk": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"diskPath": "string",
"capacity": 0,
"freeSpace": 0,
"filesystemType": "string",
"mappings": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": 0
}
]
}
],
"screen": {
"width": 0,
"height": 0
},
"guestState": "string",
"appHeartbeatStatus": "string",
"guestKernelCrashed": false,
"appState": "string",
"guestOperationsReady": false,
"interactiveGuestOperationsReady": false,
"guestStateChangeSupported": false,
"generationInfo": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"generationNo": 0
}
],
"hwVersion": "string",
"customizationInfo": {
"customizationStatus": "string",
"startTime": "string",
"endTime": "string",
"errorMsg": "string"
}
}Deprecated as of vSphere API 4.0 use VirtualMachineToolsVersionStatusEnum and VirtualMachineToolsRunningStatusEnum.
Current status of VMware Tools running in the guest operating system.
Possible values:
toolsNotInstalled: VMware Tools has never been installed or has not run in the virtual machine.toolsNotRunning: VMware Tools is not running.toolsOld: VMware Tools is running, but the version is not current.toolsOk: VMware Tools is running and the version is current.
Deprecated as of vSphere API 5.1 use GuestInfo.toolsVersionStatus2.
Current version status of VMware Tools in the guest operating system, if known.
The set of possible values is described in VirtualMachineToolsVersionStatusEnum for vSphere API 5.0.
Current version status of VMware Tools in the guest operating system, if known.
The set of possible values is described in VirtualMachineToolsVersionStatusEnum
Current running status of VMware Tools in the guest operating system, if known.
The set of possible values is described in VirtualMachineToolsRunningStatusEnum
Current version of VMware Tools, if known.
Current installation type of VMware Tools in the guest operating system.
The set of possible values is described in VirtualMachineToolsInstallTypeEnum
Guest operating system identifier (short name), if known.
Guest operating system family, if known.
Guest operating system full name, if known.
Guest OS Detailed data.
The guest detailed data string is a property list (space separated, name='value' pairs where the value is embedded in single quotes) of metadata provided by the guest OS when sufficiently recent tools are installed. The fields supplied will vary between distributions and distribution versions. The order of these fields is not guaranteed.
The guest detailed data string is not available before a virtual machine is first powered on. The guest must first be booted and a supported version of tools must be run to record the data (approximately 30-60 seconds after booting). Once the guest detailed data string has been recorded, it will be available whether the virtual machine is powered off or on.
Available fields:
| Name | Description | Tools version first available |
|---|---|---|
| architecture | 'Arm' or 'X86' | 11.2.0 |
| bitness | '32' or '64' | 11.2.0 |
| buildNumber | OS build number | 11.2.0 |
| cpeString | NIST Common Platform Enumeration Specification string, a standardized identifier for the OS | 12.2.0 |
| distroAddlVersion | Longer OS version string that may contain additional info (e.g. version name) | 12.2.0 |
| distroName | OS distribution name | 11.2.0 |
| distroVersion | OS version string | 11.2.0 |
| familyName | OS family name (Windows, Linux, etc.) | 11.2.0 |
| kernelVersion | Linux kernel version, Windows 10+ patch number, or Windows build number | 11.2.0 |
| prettyName | Officially specified distro "pretty name" | 11.2.0 |
Since: vSphere API Release 8.0.2.0
Hostname of the guest operating system, if known.
Primary IP address assigned to the guest operating system, if known.
Guest information about disks.
You can obtain Linux guest disk information for the following file system types: Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, XFS, Btrfs, NTFS, VFAT, UFS, PCFS, HFS, and MS-DOS.
NOTE: Installing a more recent version of VMware Tools in the guest may help obtain disk information for more file system types. Please refer the VMware Tools User Guide for up-to-date supported file system types.
Operation mode of guest operating system.
One of:
- "running" - Guest is running normally.
- "shuttingdown" - Guest has a pending shutdown command.
- "resetting" - Guest has a pending reset command.
- "standby" - Guest has a pending standby command.
- "notrunning" - Guest is not running.
- "unknown" - Guest information is not available.
Application heartbeat status.
Please see VirtualMachineAppHeartbeatStatusTypeEnum
Guest operating system's kernel crash state.
If true, the guest operating system's kernel has crashed.
Application state.
If vSphere HA is enabled and the vm is configured for Application Monitoring and this field's value is "appStateNeedReset" then HA will attempt immediately reset the vm. There are some system conditions which may delay the immediate reset. The immediate reset will be performed as soon as allowed by vSphere HA and ESX. If during these conditions the value is changed to appStateOk the reset will be cancelled.
See also GuestInfoAppStateTypeEnum.
Guest Operations availability.
If true, the virtual machine is ready to process guest operations.
Interactive Guest Operations availability.
If true, the virtual machine is ready to process guest operations as the user interacting with the guest desktop.
State change support.
If true, the virtual machine is ready to process soft power operations.
A list of namespaces and their corresponding generation numbers.
Only namespaces with non-zero VirtualMachineNamespaceManagerCreateSpec.maxSizeEventsFromGuest are guaranteed to be present here. Use VirtualMachineNamespaceManager.ListNamespaces to retrieve list of namespaces.
The hardware version string for this virtual machine.