Installing vmware's viper (vmware api bindings for perl)

1. installing_viper

Installing vmware's viper api for perl on ubuntu 12.04

 tar -xzf VMware-VIPerl-1.6.0-104313.x86_64.tar.gz
 cd vmware-viperl-distrib/
 sudo apt-get install libclass-methodmaker-perl
 sudo apt-get install libcrypt-ssleay-perl
 sudo apt-get install libsoap-lite-perl
 sudo apt-get install libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl
 sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
 sudo apt-get install libxml2
 sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
 sudo apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl
 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 PERL5LIB=./lib  apps/vm/vmtemplate.pl

This results in a complaint along these lines when running
"perl Makefile.PL":

Warning: prerequisite UUID 0.03 not found. We have 0.02.

But that hasn't bit me yet ?

2. ovftool_and_knife_vsphere

Making an OVF into a template with OVFtool

(a.b == a vmware tools host)
(x.y == a vsphere server fronting the console)
(d.e == a vmware esx server that will host the template/image)
```
ovftool --name='PN-test-snd-template' \
  --net:'Network 1'=LV-7150s-cl \
  --datastore='data (6)' \
  http://192.168.a.b/build/production-67-v1.0.0-pre-70f93cf-03-20-2014/exports/ova/SND-VM_OVF10.ova \
  'vi://192.168.x.y/?ip=192.168.d.e'

env PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 \
  PERL5LIB=./lib \
  apps/vm/vmtemplate.pl \
  --server 192.168.x.y \
  --operation T \
  --vmname PN-test-snd-template
```

Now that it's built:

(m.n == the address for the new VM OS.  Note the "/24" suffix seems wrong, since we're creating a /32, but it's correct)
```
knife vsphere vm clone pn-snd-test \
  --chostname pn-snd-test \
  --cdomain statelessnetworks.com \
  --cips 192.168.m.n/24 --cgw 192.168.m.1/0 --cdnsips 192.168.m.1 \
  --cram 2 --ccpu 2 \
  --template PN-test-snd-template \
  --ssh-user root --distro chef-full
```

using_it

Making a vm into a template with apps/vm/vmtemplate.pl:

jenkins@jenkins-foo:~/vmware-viperl-distrib$ env  PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 PERL5LIB=./lib apps/vm/vmtemplate.pl --server 192.168.x.y --operation T --vmname pn-veos
Enter username: root
Enter password:

The Virtual Machine 'pn-veos' under host 192.168.x.y is successfully marked as a template.
jenkins@jenkins-stateless:~/vmware-viperl-distrib$