I need to disk files to be created and allocated so I can start the vm - the vm itself will be PXE booted. I can programmatically create the domain however it fails to start because the disk files are not there. Thanks On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:35 PM Pierre Schweitzer <pierre@reactos.org> wrote:

Dear Paul,

Depending on how you want to create them, qemu-img tool might be what you're looking for. It can create empty vmdk disk images: qemu-img create -f vmdk ...

Cheers,

On 04/01/2015 06:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote:

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I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be done or even if it's possible at all ?

Thanks

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I can create vms using the vSphere API, I was interested if it's possible to programmatically create and start (i.e. without calling external tools) using libvirt only. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM Mihamina Rakotomandimby < mihamina.rakotomandimby@rktmb.org> wrote:

On 04/01/2015 07:25 PM, Paul Apostolescu wrote:

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I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX May be https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/content?filterID= contentstatus[published]~objecttype~objecttype[thread]

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Thanks, that works perfectly ! On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:

2015-04-01 18:25 GMT+02:00 Paul Apostolescu <apbogdan@gmail.com>:

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I want to create a virtual machine from scratch in ESX but I can't figure out how to create the disks - the vmdk files. Any hints on how that can be done or even if it's possible at all ?

You can use the following virsh command:

vol-create-as --pool ds --name test/disk.vmdk --capacity 10737418240

This will create a 10 GB VMDK image named test/disk.vmdk in the datastore ds. You need to replace ds with the actual name of a datastore on your ESX server. You can get a list of the available datastores with the virsh command pool-list.

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