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Sample: show uses for EventHistoryCollector

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#50 opened on Jun 3, 2014

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Description

We don't have many samples demonstrating the use of Events. I would like to see a sample that allowed a script to listen for multiple VM power on events and take action on the VM power on events asynchronously.

What I mean by that is in the sample create/find 3 VM. Power them on 1, 2, 3 and if 2 powers up first do something to it (like touch a guest file or answer a VM question or something) then go back to listening for 1 and 3's finished power on task.

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PythonpyVmomi basicsvSphere eventsasync programming
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the pyVmomi documentation for the EventManager and PropertyCollector to understand how to collect events. Examine existing samples in this repository for patterns on using EventHistoryCollector. Consider using Python's asyncio or a callback mechanism to handle asynchronous event reception. The sample should create three VMs, power them on, and listen for completion events, then perform an action on the first one that powers on. There are no existing comments or PRs to reference.