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Hey guys, I need some help with a program I am writing. I am trying to write a UI that allows automation for a number of services. It's designed to talk with VMs over a network so that you can automate scripts and tasks in order to save time. I've had a great amount of success with PureBasic interacting with plink, by calling it and passing batch information, however I have hit a bit of a snag.

I am trying to communicate with vSphere in an easy an efficient way. I could do it over SSH, but not many people seem to have SSH enabled on their ESX host. I looked into automating it by passing PowerShell commands, but because I am basically going PB > PowerShell > PowerCLI it makes things a lot more complicated than they need to be, and I am only reliably able to get output from stdout.

I don't particularly want to re-write the entire application in PowerShell, as the only way to make a GUI easily is with a program called Primal Forms that appears to be feature limited or $350 USD. So, my question is this:

Does anyone have a good suggestion for how I can proceed? I know vSphere can talk over SOAP, but I am not really confident in calling external DLLs in PureBasic, and I don't have a lot of examples to look at.




Thanks!

Imo vmware give you api to control vm clients without write backdoor per each vm.
Its easy if you are family with vmware api!

I am not trying to write a backdoor per VM, I am trying to determine the best way to approach talking to vSphere using PureBasic. I saw your PM, and I appreciate the offer, but I am not looking to pay someone to do something I am doing as an exercise in learning to program in PureBasic.