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How to get stdout and stderr or console log when I created a VM.

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#670 opened on Jun 29, 2021

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Description

Hot to get installing VM's stdout and stderr or console log when I created a VM with pyvmomi. I want to check if the VM install successfully and get the error when it's failed.

from pyVim.connect import Disconnect, SmartConnectNoSSL
from pyVmomi import vim, vmodl

vw.create_vm('vm_name', mac_address=mac_address, mem=2024, cpu=1, guest_id="rhel6_64Guest", version="vmx-11",
         ip="10.1.110.188")
vm = get_obj(vw.content, [vim.VirtualMachine], 'vm_name')
power(vm, "on")  # power on

# How to do??
stdout = "" 
stderr = ""
install_log = ""

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The user wants to capture the installation log of a VM created using pyvmomi. The issue lacks a solution and has no comments. To resolve, one would need to look into pyvmomi's API for retrieving VM console output or guest operations. Specifically, checking vim.vm.GuestInfo or using Vmomi support for serial port logging could help. No maintainer response yet.