>From a function perspective, the VMWare API is fairly limited. It provides the ability to activate and deactivate images, and some very limited reconfiguration functions (mostly adding and deleting predefined resources). I would liken it to controlling a device via SNMP -- very formalized, and somewhat difficult to comprehend or extend.
One of the features of VMWare I'd like to see in VM is some of the new filesystem types that allow base images and copy-on-write function (you can have a base filesystem and have individual images record changes as a series of transactions that can be replayed on the base to produce a unique image). This would be very helpful with producing shared images that are customized. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > The VMware server products (GSX and ESX) have a scripting API > that lets you > some basic stuff to/with the guests. Also the configuration > files for each > guest are plain text and can be edited. I am not suggesting > that this comes > even close to what is available in zVM, but it is something. > > Details canbe got here > http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/scripting-API/doc/Scri > pting_API.pdf >
