Virtual Machine Guest Customization Manager Abort Customization Task
Abort any running guest customization process in the guest and remove the guest customization lock in the guest as well.
As a result of the operation, the guest configuration may be left in an undefined state, which is however fine because guest customization is idempotent. A later successful guest customization can set the guest configuration to a valid state. The virtual machine must be in the powered-on state and the VMware Tools must be running. The VM is typically a cloned VM after the InstantClone operation. See InstantClone_Task.
Required privileges: VirtualMachine.Provisioning.Customize
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 VirtualMachineGuestCustomizationManager/{moId}.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
{
"vm": {
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"auth": {
"interactiveSession": false
}
}GuestAuthentication is an abstract base class for authentication in the guest.
This method returns a Task object with which to monitor the operation.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy.
InvalidPowerState: if the VM is not powered on.
InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the virtual machine's current state. For example, if the VMware Tools is not running.
InvalidGuestLogin: if the the guest authentication information was not accepted.
GuestPermissionDenied: if the provided guest authentication is not sufficient to perform the guest customization.
CustomizationFault: if a customization error occurs.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
"faultMessage": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"arg": [
{
"_typeName": "string",
"key": "string",
"value": {
"_typeName": "string"
}
}
],
"message": "string"
}
]
}