Create a VM through CreateVM_Task and SOAP WebServices

Hello,

I am facing a strange problem here, trying to create a VM with Php & SOAP !

I managed to connect to my vCenter, and creating an "empty" VM with no additional hardware (no deviceChange section) is working fine ! As soon as I try to add a hardware element (CDRom in this case) It stops working.

Here's the XML code from my SOAP Request :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn:vim25" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

     <SOAP-ENV:Body>

          <ns1:CreateVM_Task>

               <ns1:_this>group-v689</ns1:_this>

               <ns1:config>

                    <name>testSOAPh</name>

                    <version>vmx-11</version>

                    <guestId>RHEL7_64guest</guestId>

                    <files>

                         <vmPathName>[vsanDatastore]</vmPathName>

                    </files>

                    <numCPUs>1</numCPUs>

                    <memoryMB>4096</memoryMB>

                    <deviceChange>

                         <VirtualDeviceConfigSpec>

                              <device type="VirtualCdrom">

                                   <key>-42</key>

                                   <connectable>

                                        <startConnected>true</startConnected>

                                        <allowGuestControl>true</allowGuestControl>

                                        <connected>false</connected>

                                   </connectable>

                                   <controllerKey>200</controllerKey>

                                   <unitNumber>0</unitNumber>

                              </device>

                              <operation>add</operation>

                         </VirtualDeviceConfigSpec>

                    </deviceChange>

               </ns1:config>

               <ns1:pool>resgroup-27</ns1:pool>

          </ns1:CreateVM_Task>

     </SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

And the error message :

Required property device is missing from data object of type VirtualDeviceConfigSpec

 

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec

at line 2, column 400

 

while parsing property &quot;deviceChange&quot; of static type ArrayOfVirtualDeviceConfigSpec

 

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.ConfigSpec

at line 2, column 213

 

while parsing call information for method CreateVM_Task

at line 2, column 169

 

while parsing SOAP body

at line 2, column 154

 

while parsing SOAP envelope

at line 2, column 0

 

while parsing HTTP request for method createVm

on object of type vim.Folder

 

I think I am missing something pretty simple ! Like how to imbricate the device type (how to specify that you want to create a VirtualCdrom which is a special type of VirtualDevice) and how to design an ArrayOfVirtualDeviceConfigSpec !

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

GS