{"id":927,"date":"2010-07-29T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2010-07-29T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T18:31:13","slug":"vmrun-issue-on-vmware-workstation-7-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vmrun-issue-on-vmware-workstation-7-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"vmrun issue on VMware Workstation 7.1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a specialized project that included the use of vmrun (part of VMware VIX).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Project<\/strong><br \/>\nThis project required the ability to restore a VM to a baseline Snapshot.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is that the user is not a tech person, and the requirement was that it was very easy to restore the baseline Snapshot using a simple batch file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Problem<\/strong><br \/>\nSo I ran vmrun (located in C:Program FilesVMwareVMware VIX) to see the necessary syntax to revert to a Snapshot.<\/p>\n<p>The syntax is:<br \/>\n<strong>vmrun -T ws revertToSnapShot &#8220;C:pathvmnamevmname.vmx&#8221; SnapShotName<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The error I received &#8220;was: The specified version was not found&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After some looking around, it appeared that one of two things happened:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The updated VMware VIX package was not updated from my 7.0.1 installation of VMware Workstation<\/li>\n<li>The updated VMware VIX package was not included in the 7.1.0 installation of VMware Workstation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I kind of think that the first is true.\u00a0 I say this, because when VMware Workstation is initially installed, a VMware VIX installer presents itself to augment the installation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Solution<\/strong><br \/>\nI went to VMware&#8217;s site to download the latest version of VMware VIX.<br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"VMware Communities: VIX API\" href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/community\/developer\/forums\/automationapi\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/community\/developer\/forums\/automationapi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After installing the updated VMware VIX build, my problems were solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a specialized project that included the use of vmrun (part of VMware VIX). The Project This project required the ability to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[82,101,105,116],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","tag-snapshot","tag-vix","tag-vmware","tag-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}