June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python
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Building the VMX template
We are now going to create the template file that we will use to build our virtual machine in Python. Here's an example of the final running VMX file that we need to generate with the help of Python and Jinja2:
.encoding = "UTF-8"vhv.enable = "TRUE"config.version = "8"virtualHW.version = "8"vmci0.present = "TRUE"hpet0.present = "TRUE"displayName = "test_jinja2"# SpecsmemSize = "4096"numvcpus = "1"cpuid.coresPerSocket = "1"# HDDscsi0.present = "TRUE"scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"scsi0:0.fileName = "test_jinja2.vmdk"scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"# Floppyfloppy0.present = "false"# CDRomide1:0.present = "TRUE"ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"ide1:0.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ISO ...
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