Get Guest Processes
Returns the status of a process running in the guest operating system, including those started by Processes.create that may have recently completed.
if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows: - The resource VirtualMachine referenced by the parameter vm requires VirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Query.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/api/vcenter/vm/{vm}/guest/processes/{pid}?action=get
Path Parameters
Path Parameters
string
vm
Required
Virtual machine to perform the operation on.
The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: VirtualMachine.
integer
pid
Required
Specifies the process to query.
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, obtained by first calling Create Session API
Request Body
Request Body
VmGuestProcessesGetRequestBody of mimetype application/json
Optional
This is a request body class for an operation.
(The request body parameter is missing description)
{
"credentials": {
"interactive_session": false,
"type": "enum"
}
}
Response
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
200 OK returns
VmGuestProcessesInfo of type application/json
The #Info for the process with id pid.
{
"command": "string",
"exit_code": 0,
"finished": "string",
"name": "string",
"owner": "string",
"started": "string"
}
string
command
Required
The full command line of the process.
string
name
Required
The process name.
string
owner
Required
The process owner.
string
started
Required
The start time of the process.
integer
exit_code
Optional
If the process was started using Processes.create then the process exit code will be available if queried within 5 minutes after it completes. Set if the process was started with Processes.create and has recently exited.
string
finished
Optional
If the process was started using Processes.create then the process completion time will be available if queried within 5 minutes after it completes. Set if the process was started with Processes.create and has recently exited.
cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"credentials":{"interactive_session":false,"password":"string","saml_token":"string","type":"enum","user_name":"string"}}' https://{api_host}/api/vcenter/vm/{vm}/guest/processes/{pid}?action=get
Errors
400
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_allowed_in_current_state : if the virtual machine vm is not running. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unsupported : if the operation is not supported by the VMware tools in the guest OS.
if the operation is disabled by the VMware tools in the guest OS.
404
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_found : if the virtual machine vm is not found.
if the process pid is not found. The value of com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.Error#data will contain all the fields defined in the Processes.ProcessErrorDetails providing additional information about the failure.
Availability
Added in 7.0.2.0
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