Vcenter Vm Hardware Parallel BackingInfo

The Vcenter Vm Hardware Parallel BackingInfo schema contains information about the physical resource backing a virtual parallel port.

JSON Example

{
    "type": "string",
    "file": "string",
    "host_device": "string",
    "auto_detect": false
}

string

type

Required

Backing type for the virtual parallel port.

For more information see: Vcenter Vm Hardware Parallel BackingType.

string

file

Optional

Path of the file backing the virtual parallel port.

This property is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is Vcenter Vm Hardware Parallel BackingType.FILE.

string

host_device

Optional

Name of the device backing the virtual parallel port.

This property will be missing or null if auto_detect is true and the virtual parallel port is not connected or no suitable device is available on the host.

boolean

auto_detect

Optional

Flag indicating whether the virtual parallel port is configured to automatically detect a suitable host device.

This property is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is Vcenter Vm Hardware Parallel BackingType.HOST_DEVICE.