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Finder is probably just looking in RootFolder.VmFolder and not its child folders.
We can take a look at this after the holiday.

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any progress on this?

Or can you suggest any other method to find a VM by name without knowing its full path? In Java SDK I used InventoryNavigator object. Is there anything similar here?

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The path given to finder.VirtualMachine is relative to the datacenter vmFolder. You can use "folderName/vmName" or "*/vmName". But we should probably add an option to recurse folders so we can find by name without a folder path.

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I've just been using FindChildByName in the interim. Not quite as concise and you need to process the reference returned, but viable.
Please excuse me if I've got the function name slightly wrong, phone isn't good at browsing source.

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-------- Original message --------
From: Doug MacEachern
Date:20/01/2015 09:37 (GMT-08:00)
To: vmware/govmomi
Cc: George Hicken
Subject: Re: [govmomi] finder.VirtualMachine and VC (#190)

The path given to finder.VirtualMachine is relative to the datacenter vmFolder. You can use "folderName/vmName" or "*/vmName". But we should probably add an option to recurse folders so we can find by name without a folder path.

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I had looked into that and tested it out, but doesn't look like it recurses into sub folders:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.SearchIndex.html#findChild

"This only searches the immediate children of a managed entity"

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VM name is an unique property, and enumerating all the folders on the a client side doesn't look as effective solution. SearchIndex doesn't provide such lookup methods, but there is alternate API. Here is how I currently do that in Groovy:
def vm = new InventoryNavigator(client.getRootFolder()).searchManagedEntity("VirtualMachine", "name")
It would be great to have the same API here.

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Agreed, I'll try to look into this over the weekend or early next week.

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Any update on this?

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Hey guys.. Any updates?

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