To complete a restore, the calling process requires the permissions in Table 1.

For security reasons, programs are not granted write access to the disks of a running virtual machine. Before you shut it down, you should determine the run-state of the virtual machine.

Run-state information is available from the

PropertyCollector

, and if you keep this information up-to-date, your application already knows the run-state of the virtual machine. To change the run-state you must have the

moRef

of the virtual machine. Use this

moRef

in a

PowerOnVM_Task

call through the server connection. For virtual machine shutdown, call the

PowerOffVM_Task

method.