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Fix: bypass ESXi license/version restriction on SOAP requests #1114

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions README.rst
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Expand Up @@ -93,4 +93,8 @@ Related Projects
* VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python: https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python
* Samples Project: https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples

Licence Error
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If you are facing the following error: "Caught vmodl fault : Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation." i solved that and this fork has the solution implemented.

Have fun!
12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions pyVmomi/SoapAdapter.py
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Expand Up @@ -1328,7 +1328,10 @@ def __init__(self,
customHeaders=None,
sessionId=None):
self._customHeaders = customHeaders
self.cookie = ""
# ESXi license fix: spoof the vSphere client cookie to bypass
# "Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the
# requested operation."
self.cookie = "vmware_client=VMware;"
if ns:
assert (version is None)
version = versionMap[ns]
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1478,7 +1481,8 @@ def InvokeMethod(self, mo, info, args, outerStub=None):
status = resp.status

if cookie:
self.cookie = cookie
# ESXi license fix: keep the spoofed vSphere client cookie prefix.
self.cookie = "vmware_client=VMware;" + cookie
sessionId = SimpleCookie(cookie)[COOKIE_NAME].value
super(SoapStubAdapter, self).SetSessionId(sessionId)
if status == 200 or status == 500:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1598,7 +1602,9 @@ def ReturnConnection(self, conn):

def SetSessionId(self, sessionId):
super(SoapStubAdapter, self).SetSessionId(sessionId)
self.cookie = '{0}="{1}"'.format(COOKIE_NAME, sessionId) if sessionId else ""
# ESXi license fix: keep the spoofed vSphere client cookie prefix.
self.cookie = 'vmware_client=VMware;{0}="{1}"'.format(
COOKIE_NAME, sessionId) if sessionId else "vmware_client=VMware;"

# Need to override the depcopy method. Since, the stub is not deep copyable
# due to the thread lock and connection pool, deep copy of a managed object
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