06-30-2011
Help with Vmrun in Vmware
Hi,
I've set up Windows XP virtual machines on an Ubuntu host to perform certain automated tasks. I copy files from the Ubuntu machine over to the XP machines using vmrun, execute the files, and receive reports back. All this is done using bash.
If the files I copy and run over in the vm crash the vm and cause a BSOD for some reason, the whole automation gets stuck. Is there any way to find out the state of the Windows XP machine ?
Any help is appreciated
---------- Post updated 06-30-11 at 01:13 PM ---------- Previous update was 06-29-11 at 11:12 PM ----------
I managed to find a crude solution for this. I've introduced a timeout in the bash script like this:
bash vmrun.sh & sleep 120 ; kill $!
So, if the script doesn't finish execution in the vmware guest within 120 seconds, for whatever may be the reason [BSOD, machine hung machine rebooted etc.], I kill it.
Hope someone finds this useful.
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NAME
bup-on - run a bup server locally and client remotely
SYNOPSIS
bup on <hostname> index ...
bup on <hostname> save ...
bup on <hostname> split ...
DESCRIPTION
bup on runs the given bup command on the given host using ssh. It runs a bup server on the local machine, so that commands like bup save
on the remote machine can back up to the local machine. (You don't need to provide a --remote option to bup save in order for this to
work.)
See bup-index(1), bup-save(1), and so on for details of how each subcommand works.
This 'reverse mode' operation is useful when the machine being backed up isn't supposed to be able to ssh into the backup server. For
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resulting data and storing in its local repository.
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EXAMPLES
# First index the files on the remote server
$ bup on myserver index -vux /etc
bup server: reading from stdin.
Indexing: 2465, done.
bup: merging indexes (186668/186668), done.
bup server: done
# Now save the files from the remote server to the
# local $BUP_DIR
$ bup on myserver save -n myserver-backup /etc
bup server: reading from stdin.
bup server: command: 'list-indexes'
PackIdxList: using 7 indexes.
Saving: 100.00% (241/241k, 648/648 files), done.
bup server: received 55 objects.
Indexing objects: 100% (55/55), done.
bup server: command: 'quit'
bup server: done
# Now we can look at the resulting repo on the local
# machine
$ bup ftp 'cat /myserver-backup/latest/etc/passwd'
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
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bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
...
SEE ALSO
bup-index(1), bup-save(1), bup-split(1)
BUP
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AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
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