February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
8h 12m
English
To configure the network of a virtual machine guest operating system, you can use the Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface and Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface cmdlets. Both cmdlets are experimental and might be changed or removed in a future PowerCLI release. The cmdlets use the VMware Tools. So, if these tools are not installed inside the guest operating system or when they are not running, the cmdlets will not work. Because the cmdlets use the VMware Tools, you can configure a guest's network even if the network is not running or is disconnected.
In the help of Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface and Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface cmdlets, the following requirements for using these cmdlets are specified:
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