govc: Add ability to create and destroy a snapshot. about govmomi HOT 5 CLOSED

Would definitely be nice to have. In working on this, I'm sure we can also add some nice helpers to govmomi itself.

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Any chance to have a snapshot API?

Actually my usecase is even simpler than creating and deleting snapshots: I need to create linked VM clones, and just need to pass a reference to VM.snapshot.currentSnapshot object. Any suggestions how can it be done?

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In general, all the APIs are available in govmomi as they are generated from the wsdl. For example, looking at the docs here:
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.VirtualMachine.html#createSnapshot

git grep CreateSnapshot_Task and you'll see generated methods and types under vim25/

We have been adding simple wrappers for such methods, for example have a look at the govmomi/virtual_machine.go Power* methods. We have a generator for these wrappers in the works, but in the meantime have also been creating some of the wrappers by hand.

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Thank you for the explanation, I've made this work.

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