VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v0.5.0🎉

VSS-CLI v0.5.0 is available for download via PyPI or GitLab. Latest version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

Improvements

VM state change to suspend option (#231)

Commands:

• compute vm set state suspend

Description

The VSS API now provides support to suspend your virtual machine which has been exposed via the cli wit the following command:

Usage: vss-cli compute vm set state [OPTIONS]
                                    [on|off|reboot|reset|shutdown|suspend]

  Set given virtual machine power state.

  vss-cli compute vm set <name-or-uuid> state on|off|reset|reboot|shutdown
  -c

  Reboot and shutdown send a guest OS restart signal (VMware Tools
  required).

Options:
  -c, --confirm  Confirm state change
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Confirm change of stated only if state is not Off (#233)

Commands:

• compute vm set state on|off|reboot|shutdown|suspend

Description

Confirm change of state if current power state is not powered off:

vss-cli compute vm set <vm-name-or-uuid> state off
Host Name:	HOTH (Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit))
IP Address:	fe80::c92b:e19:eab1:1119, 192.168.1.149
Are you sure you want to change the state from "running to off" of the above VM? [y/N]:

Provide python implementation in --version (#236)

Commands:

• vss-cli --version

Description

To provide more information while troubleshooting , python implementation is now included in the --version flag:

vss-cli v0.5.0 (pyvss/0.13.0 CPython/3.7.6)

pyvss upgrade from 0.12.1 -> 0.13.0 (#234)

Compute vm set vss-option allow autocompletion (#235)

Implement wheels packaging (#238)

Bug fixes

Fixes issue with version values supported by the CLI (#230)

Fixes issue validation VMware Tools running status when submitting a shutdown/reboot signal (#232)

Upgrade

Remember, VSS-CLI documentation is now available in VSS-CLI and the full Change Log is available here. Upgrade or install VSS-CLI as follows:

# using vss-cli
vss-cli upgrade stable

# upgrade with pip
pip install vss-cli --upgrade

# install
pip install vss-cli 

For more information, please refer to the official documentation site.