public TaskInfoState CreateSnapshot(string name, string description, bool memory, bool quiesce, out string snapshotOut)
{
snapshotOut = string.Empty;
ManagedObjectReference morTask = _vimService.CreateSnapshot_Task(_morThis, name, description, memory, quiesce);
MyVMTask myTask = new MyVMTask(_vimService, _pc, morTask);
TaskInfo ti = null;
TaskInfoState state = myTask.Wait(3000, -1, out ti);
if (state == TaskInfoState.success)
{
ManagedObjectReference morSnapshot = (ManagedObjectReference)(ti.result);
snapshotOut = morSnapshot?.Value;
}
return(state);
}
static ManagedObjectReference GetSnapshot(string targetvm, bool takeNew)
{
if (takeNew)
{
VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo runtime = GetProperty <VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo>(vm, "runtime");
if (runtime.powerState.ToString() != "poweredOn")
{
Error(new Exception("VM is not powered on, no point snapshotting"));
}
Log("[x] Creating snapshot for VM " + targetvm + "...");
ManagedObjectReference task = vim.CreateSnapshot_Task(vm, "System Backup " + DateTime.Now.ToString(), "System Backup" + DateTime.Now.ToString(), true, true);
string state = GetProperty <TaskInfo>(task, "info").state.ToString();
while (state != "success")
{
switch (state)
{
case "error":
Error(new Exception("Error creating snapshot"));
break;
case "running":
Thread.Sleep(10000);
break;
}
state = GetProperty <TaskInfo>(task, "info").state.ToString();
}
Log("[x] Snapshot created successfully");
return((ManagedObjectReference)GetProperty <TaskInfo>(task, "info").result);
}
else
{
Log("[x] Finding existing snapshots for " + targetvm + "...");
VirtualMachineSnapshotInfo snapshotInfo = null;
try
{
snapshotInfo = GetProperty <VirtualMachineSnapshotInfo>(vm, "snapshot");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Error(new Exception("No existing snapshots found for the VM " + targetvm + ", recommend you try again with --snapshot set"));
}
return(snapshotInfo.currentSnapshot);
}
}
