The closest info I can find in the vSphere UI is the user of the "Clone completed" event in the events list in monitoring. Can i access this list with pyvmomi? Or any better alternative would be appreciated.
That kind of information isn't part of the virtual machine object, so your best bet is to poll the events via EventManager Only caveat, if you have a particularly active environment, the events may rollover so using and polling a syslog would be the most consistent manner of obtaining that information.