Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem Files move
Renames a file in the guest.
This operation was added in vSphere API 7.0.2.0.
Returns an authorization error if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:
- The resource
VirtualMachine
referenced by the parameter vm requiresVirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Modify
.
Virtual Machine to perform the operation on.
The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: VirtualMachine
.
Request body for invoking operation: move
Show optional properties
{
"credentials": {
"interactive_session": false,
"type": "string"
},
"path": "string",
"new_path": "string"
}
{
"credentials": {
"interactive_session": false,
"type": "string",
"user_name": "string",
"password": "string",
"saml_token": "string"
},
"path": "string",
"new_path": "string",
"overwrite": false
}
The Vcenter Vm Guest Credentials schema defines the guest credentials used for guest operation authentication.
This schema was added in vSphere API 7.0.2.0.
The complete path to the original file or symbolic link to be moved.
The complete path to the new file. It cannot be a path to an existing directory.
If true, the destination file is overwritten.
If missing or null
, the destination file is not overwritten.
Success!
Vapi Std Errors AlreadyExists if the newPath already exists and overwrite is false.
Vapi Std Errors InvalidArgument:
- if path is not a file. The value of Vapi Std Errors Error.data will contain all the properties defined in the Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem FileErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
- if path is too long. The value of Vapi Std Errors Error.data will contain all the properties defined in the Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem FileErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
- if newPath is too long. The value of Vapi Std Errors Error.data will contain all the properties defined in the Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem FileErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
Vapi Std Errors NotAllowedInCurrentState if the virtual machine not running.
Vapi Std Errors Unsupported:
- if the operation is not supported by the VMware Tools in the guest operating system.
- if the operation is disabled by the VMware Tools in the guest operating system.
"Vapi Std Errors Error Object"
Stack of one or more localizable messages for human error consumers.
The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes the error from the perspective of the operation the client invoked.
Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.
Data to facilitate clients responding to the operation reporting a standard error to indicating that it was unable to complete successfully.
Operations may provide data that clients can use when responding to errors. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the context of the operation reporting the error, different operations that report the same error may provide different data in the error. The documentation for each each operation will describe what, if any, data it provides for each error it reports.
The Vapi Std Errors ArgumentLocations, Vapi Std Errors FileLocations, and Vapi Std Errors TransientIndication schemas are intended as possible values for this property. Vapi Std DynamicID may also be useful as a value for this property (although that is not its primary purpose). Some resources may provide their own specific schemas for use as the value of this property when reporting errors from their operations.
Some operations will not set this property when reporting errors.
Discriminator field to help API consumers identify the structure type.
For more information see: Vapi Std Errors Error Type.
This property was added in vSphere API 6.7.2.
Can be missing or null
for compatibility with preceding implementations.
if the credentials object was not valid.
"Vapi Std Errors Unauthenticated Object"
Indicates the authentication challenges applicable to the target API provider. It can be used by a client to discover the correct authentication scheme to use. The exact syntax of the value is defined by the specific provider, the protocol and authentication schemes used.
For example, a provider using REST may adhere to the WWW-Authenticate HTTP header specification, RFC7235, section 4.1. In this case an example challenge value may be: SIGN realm="27da1358-2ba4-11e9-b210-d663bd873d93",sts="http://vcenter/sso?vsphere.local", Basic realm="vCenter"
This property was added in vSphere API 7.0.0.0.
This property is optional because it was added in a newer version than its parent node.
if a path cannot be accessed.
if a path cannot be renamed because the guest authentication will not allow the operation.
"Vapi Std Errors Unauthorized Object"
if the virtual machine is not found.
if path does not exist. The value of Vapi Std Errors Error.data will contain all the properties defined in the Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem FileErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
if the parent directory of newPath does not exist. The value of Vapi Std Errors Error.data will contain all the properties defined in the Vcenter Vm Guest Filesystem FileErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
"Vapi Std Errors NotFound Object"
if the virtual machine is busy.
"Vapi Std Errors ResourceBusy Object"
if the VMware Tools is not running.
"Vapi Std Errors ServiceUnavailable Object"
curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"credentials:"object","new_path:"string","path:"string"}' https://{api_host}/api/vcenter/vm/{vm}/guest/filesystem/files?action=move