govmomi: `no such VM` finding by UUID

$ govc vm.info db

Name:           db
  Path:         /DC ONE/vm/packer-templates/db
  UUID:         420a16a5-dd7b-8507-b853-159c679ee137
  Guest name:   CentOS 4/5/6 (64-bit)
  Memory:       1024MB
  CPU:          1 vCPU(s)
  Power state:  poweredOff
  Boot time:    <nil>
  IP address:
  Host:         DC.example.com

$ govc vm.info -vm.uuid=420a16a5-dd7b-8507-b853-159c679ee137

govc: no such VM
2018/01/28 19:30:06.831219 [ERR] (cli) unexpected exit from subprocess (1)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 24 (8 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I don’t think we should change the vm.uuid flag to workaround the 5.5 limitation, since the govc find workaround works with all versions. We can add some doc before the next govc release at least.

dougm on Jan 29, 2018

Sounds like a dup of #848 , which is specific to 5.5 and template VMs. It includes a workaround:

% govc find / -type m -config.uuid 4204883e-484b-8f3c-c33d-126a997a5a4b | xargs govc vm.info
# or
% govc find / -type m -config.instanceUuid 4204883e-484b-8f3c-c33d-126a997a5a4b | xargs govc vm.info

dougm on Jan 29, 2018