How to run commands inside a virtual machine?

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• Run the script inside the virtual machine the user when the user connects or reconnects

  Hello

  is it possible to detect the user that the user has connected or reconnected to his office inside the virtual machine and run a script?

  It is also possible within the VM user to determine if the user is connected and how long?

  One way to do this is via the following powershell command, but this only works if the user is connected through PCoIP Protocol.

  Get-WmiObject-class Win32_PerfRawData_TeradiciPerf_PCoIPSessionGeneralStatistics - SessionDurationSeconds property

  Best regards

  > it is possible to detect the user that the user has connected either reconnected to his office inside the virtual machine and run a script?

  You can run scripts as user on login and reconnect, this has been a feature since 3.0. See running commands on the desktop view.

  > It is possible inside the VM user to determine if the user is connected and how long?

  I don't think that we expose, but you should be able to query Windows for the connection time, or you could write the last time to connect with a script (maybe that is the reason for your first question?).

  Mike

• How to install and configure the virtual machine with XP as an operating system on a Machine running Vista

  How to install and configure the virtual machine and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.

  * original title - how to install and configure the computer virtual and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.*

  How to install and configure the virtual machine and XP operating system inside, with vista as my work machine.

  Hey Preethi23

  It comes to the installation of vista operating system instance

  read the links below

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Virtual-PC/support/Virtual-PC-2007.aspx

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Virtual-PC/support/FAQ.aspx

  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=04d26402-3199-48A3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en

  Walter, the time zone traveller

• Run a Windows command on all virtual machines

  Using PowerCLI, is it possible to run a Windows command on all virtual machines?  I would like to hiberbation disabled on all my servers as it is unnecessary and take up disk space.  Running powercfg-h off will do, but I really want to do it on all 200 of my VM.

  I can't seem to find the option in group policy, so I was hoping that this could be an option.

  The above posts are excellent resolutions. Here is another possible approach.

  You can do this with a Powershell script. Something like this should work:

  1. The list of virtual machines:

  SE connect-ViServer here VCenter server name

  $vms = get - VM

  1. If you have installed Powershell and PSRemoting enabled on each virtual machine, run the following:

  $vms | foreach-object {Invoke-Command - ComputerName $_.} Name - ScriptBlock {powercfg - h}

  1. If you have not installed Powershell and PSRemoting on each virtual machine, use WMI:

  foreach ($vm to $vms)

  {

  $vmName = $vm. Name

  (\[WMIClass\] ")
  (' $vmName\ROOT\CIMV2: Win32_Process "). Create ("cmd /c powercfg - h)

  }

  You should probably use the WMI method since it is unlikely that all of your virtual machines have Powershell installed and configured for remote access.

• How to import the list of virtual machines to complete a table in a workflow

  When you run the followingworkflow/library/vCenter/batch/run a workflow on a selection of objects

  How import you a list of virtual machines to complete the table of virtual machines?

  At this moment we are manually by selecting the virtual machines and adding them to the table individually which is very tedious. We would simply import a list.

  There is a certain ways that you can do what you're trying to do, but from your description, it looks like a wrapper will work best.  I enclose a simple workflow that loads the table from a csv file.  There is no error checking going on, but it should help you get started and you can expand on it from there.

• How one move the templates of virtual machine from one host to another host in the cluster even

  Hello

  Can you get it someone please let me know how to move the templates of virtual machine from one host to another host in the cluster even?

  Thank you

  James

  Welcome to the forums!

  Convert it to a virtual machine (right click on guest and choose the appropriateoption), move it through the migration feature (right-click Guest, and then choose "Migrate") and convert into a model (right click on guest again and choose to convert to a template).

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'Useful' responses Thank you!!

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• How can I mutual folder "discovered virtual machines.

  I use c# api.

  When I get all records in a data center, I get the host, the vm and the discovery of the virtual machines folder.

  When you request the property of hostFolder - you download the file from the host. It goes the same for vmFolder.

  How to identify the folder "discovered virtual machines? What size should I look to find this file specifically?

  I don't want to find all the files and compare names, because files can be renamed.

  Help, please.

  Thank you.

  idanmnr

  Iamw is right.  The vmFolder will contain the "discovered virtual machines" folder, you would just do a search from there.

  What becomes tricky is that it is possible that someone is offering this particular folder in another folder, so probably have to walk down the tree of vmFolder until you find the open folder VM.  If for a simple case, you can assume it will be one of the childEntity of vmFolder objects.

  In addition, this file can be renamed as well.  I don't think that this is a special folder in inventory of VI, comes out just for a default folder that is created for use.  But maybe someone else can provide more details on that.

• GUI: how to run the same command on multiple virtual machines at the same time?

  Hello

  Suppose we have several operations on multiple virtual machines (for example as updated virtual hardware, install vmtools - but it could be something else of course...).

  I would avoid clicking on each virtual machine (especially when we have hundreds of different groups).  It is possible to select sort

  (they are not side by side) and perform on a particular operation on all selected both?

  Hello

  If you use vCenter 5.1 + you can also try to use marking and assign tags on the items in the inventory.

  VSphere 5.5 Documentation Center - apply a label to an object

  

  Search for items by this tag.

  If you want to use PowerCLI 5.5, you can also search the inventory by this tag.

  Get-VM-Tag which lists all the virtual machines with which

  Here are some links for getting started with vSphere PowerCLI

  Back to Basics: part 1 - installation PowerCLI | VMware PowerCLI Blog - Articles from VMware

  vSphere PowerCLI Documentation

• How to count the number of virtual machines on an ESXi server via command line

  I want to know the number of virtual machines running on ESXi. What is the command so that it...?

  "vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms"

  This order list of the early running of the ESXi Server virtual machine, but I want the number (integer)

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  M@RK! V

  Hello

  You can use the PowerCLI command to get a VM number:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server "ESXi host or vCenter server.

  (Get-VM-location 'ESXi host') .count

  Elodie

• Run a remote command on a virtual machine

  I have a remote application that generated virtual machines by request. After that each machine is generated and custom, I need to run a command-line on this machine (machine all have Windows OS installed) of the application itself.

  Is there a way to do it through the java/vsphere API?  (The machine is running on)

  Thank you

  the vSphere API does not provide capabilities to execute commands within the guestOS which is what uses the SDK for Java (VMware Tech Preview of Java SDK) and VI (Version of Steve Jin).

  However, VMware has an another API that is available for the management of comments called VIX API. This API allows you to perform operations within the guest, transfer files to/from host, etc. There is even a project open source similar to that of VI Java API called Toolkit Java VIX you could look in - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vixjava/

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• Activate Windows: Run Windows as a virtual machine on Ubuntu: how to activate it?

  I just got a Latitude 3550 with preinstalled Windows 8.1. I guess they were active OEM when I went first on the machine. Then I installed Ubuntu 14.04, formatting the drive completely (there is no ntfs partitions more, so Windows disappeared).

  But since I paid for the windows, I would have liked to run using a virtual machine. Try an installation using the DVD provided with the laptop using VirtualBox, I wonder an activation code.

  Do you know if it is possible to get one because I'm not using the original windows preinstalled?

  Activation code? Probably say KEY of Activation for Windows 8.1?  Windows 8.1 is an update and should not be the pre-installed OS, it would be on the sticker on the laptop or it would be in the documentation that comes with it when you bought it.  Do you have one of these pieces of priceless gold paper and plastic with it?

  If you have 2nd hand (from a private owner) she was probably preinstalled with 8.0 and then upgraded to 8.1.  If the answer is "Yes"; You must install 8.0 first and ACTIVATE it... before you run the upgrade to 8.1.

  I'm trying to find a windows 8.0 site for download but only find 8.1...

• How do you exit name of Virtual Machine of ' Get - VM | Get-AdvancedSetting' command?

  Hello, I have a question which is hopefully enough simple to answer.

  I'm having this problem explained in KB 2078352 and you want a list of VMs affected before hotfixing them, to see if it helped with our problem or not.

  
  Sample line:

  Get - vm | Get-AdvancedSetting - name tools.deployPkg.fileName

  Name value Type Description

  ----                 -----                ----                 -----------

  tools.deployPkg.f... imc1D01.tmp VM

  tools.deployPkg.f... imc937E.tmp VM

  tools.deployPkg.f... imc32EE.tmp VM

  tools.deployPkg.f... imc6030.tmp VM

  This shows only the value of the file names, but not the names of virtual machine. So I was just wondering how I can get an output of name of virtual machine with this information?

  Thanks in advance.

  Try adding a Format-Table may

  Get - VM | Get-AdvancedSetting |
  Select @{N = "VM"; E={$_. @entity.name}}, Name, Value | Format-Table - AutoSize

• How to get the host name of the physical computer inside a virtual machine until the user logs in Windows?

  I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, I develop software to support VMWare PCoIP and need to know how to get the host name of the physical machine (which manages the virtual machine and View Client) within a virtual machine before the user logs in Windows of the virtual machine.

  I understand there are two ways to read the host name, via the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment registry and environment variables, but they are available once the user is connected. I need info before the user connects.

  Is there a VMware API that can be called or asked the host name?

  Thank you.

  Not on the broker, but there are the startup scripts to log on to the computer virtual itself: http://pubs.vmware.com/view-52/topic/com.vmware.view.integration.doc/view_integration_startsession_script.9.2.html

  Note that these executed when a virtual desktop computer allocated connection, not to the point that the client connects - it is possible for the customer to not complete the connection (crash, cancel, network failure) and so any what solution you design must handle this.

  Mike

• How to migrate from vCenter as virtual machine to another host without vMotion running

  We organize ESX 3.5 hosts. I've already updated our vCenter VM to 4.0U1. We have not the vMotion Installer yet (but are licensed for her). What is the appropriate way for migrating the vCenter VM to another host without vMotion, so I can upgrade the host the vCenter VM is running on? I have examined all the documents and messages, I could find, but don't have not seen this addressed.

  You must turn off the virtual machine.

  Copy the files (if are not on a shared data store).

  Save the vmx file in the new ESX (with browser data store).

  Turn on the virtual machine.

  Answering the question "I_moved" (appears only the first time).

  André

• XEN running inside a virtual machine under ESX (i) 3.5?

  Hello world

  I'm still pretty new mV, so please bear with me if I ask is stupid. I have already searched the web, but I couldn't really find an answer to this:

  Let's say we have a VM-certified (for example from Dell) server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5. I understand that the following would be a typical scenario:

  -ESX 3.5

  -VM 1: Windows Server 2008

  -VM 2: Windows Server 2003

  -VM 3: Debian 4.0 (unofficially supported?)

  -Virtual MACHINE 4: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

  Could I now install XEN in Debian of VMS 3 making 3 Xen's Dom0 of VM?

  So what I want is this:

  -ESX 3.5

  -VM 1: Windows Server 2008

  -VM 2: Windows Server 2003

  -VM 3: Debian 4.0 with XEN (= Dom0)

  -DomU 1: Debian 4.0

  -DomU 2: Debian 4.0

  -DomU 3: Debian 5.0

  -DomU 4: Debian 3.1

  -DomU 5: supported an another Linux system by XEN

  -Virtual MACHINE 4: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

  Is this possible? If so, that requires any special parameters on the side of the virtual computer, Debian or Xen?

  Or, and this is what I hope, is the ESX service an fully transparent layer between whats running in the virtual machine (for example. Debian with XEN) and the actual hardware.

  In other words: is the installation of Debian in VM3 "knows" that he is not actually run directly on the hardware?

  Thank you very much in advance for any answers or advice in the right direction!

  Tom

  Depends on the mode of Xen.  If Xen tries to use the VT / SVM instructions, it will not work because these instructions are not virtualized.  If Xen is running a guest paravirtualise it could work - anyone I know has ever attempted.  (So, "no".)  If this does not work, we would like to hear about it.

  Re: Why Debian is not a client supported... it's a problem of bandwidth QA, invited taken in charge to be tested carefully so the number of guests that can be supported is limited.  Debian runs almost certainly - it is very similar to Ubuntu, which is supported - but VMware not QA, if we do not pretend that support.