How to send a snapshot of a VM

Question

In blender, my animation has a total length of 250ms.

But when I play my running animation to

mixer.time = 100/1000;

It only plays part of the animation.

    mixer = new THREE.AnimationMixer(cube);
      gltf.animations.forEach((clip) => {
      mixer.clipAction(clip).play();
             });
       });

...
     function seekAnimationTime(animMixer, timeInSeconds){
    animMixer.time=0;
    for(var i=0;i<animMixer._actions.length;i++){
      animMixer._actions[i].time=0;
    }
    animMixer.update(timeInSeconds)
  }

How to I make the animation run to a certain "frame" or time in blender units?

Any help appreciated.

Solution 1

Create the VM to your liking, then export it as an .ovf or .ova package.

This is under the File -> Export -> Export OVF template option in the vSphere client.

In this case, an .ova file would be a compressed image of the VM that you could copy/send to your client.

Solution 2

Would I be right in assuming that all I would have to do is download the .vmsn file and send it, or is there more to it?

No, you would not. A snapshot is a delta file - it contains only the changes made to the disk, relative to the previous snapshot or the base disk. So to send a snapshotted VM, at a minimum, you need to transfer all the vmsn files, as well as the vdmk. If you expect to be able to fire up the machine at the location you send it to, they'll probably need the rest of the machine's files as well (like the .vmx) file.

Furthermore, copying a machine with snapshots isn't generally a supported operation. Check out the VMware KB on moving/copying VMs within a virtual environment - note that they tell you to commit any snapshots before moving or copying the VM. This is not to say it's impossible to move a VM that has snapshots, but it's not supported, and generally a much bigger pain that it's worth.

Comments

[joeqwerty]

So I am running vmware vsphere client version 5.5.0 and I have a number of VM's running on it - You're not running any VM's in the vSphere client. What vSphere edition are you running on your host?

[Dan]

Correct, I have a dedicated server hosting ESXi that has a number of VM's stored on it. That server has the VM in question and it is apart of our LAN