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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virt-copy-in
virt-copy-in(1) Virtualization Support virt-copy-in(1)
NAME
virt-copy-in - Copy files and directories into a virtual machine disk image.
SYNOPSIS
virt-copy-in -a disk.img file|dir [file|dir ...] /destination
virt-copy-in -d domain file|dir [file|dir ...] /destination
WARNING
Using "virt-copy-in" on live virtual machines can be dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption. The virtual machine must be shut down
before you use this command.
DESCRIPTION
"virt-copy-in" copies files and directories from the local disk into a virtual machine disk image or named libvirt domain.
You can give one of more filenames and directories on the command line. Directories are copied in recursively. The final parameter must
be the destination directory in the disk image which must be an absolute path starting with a "/" character.
EXAMPLES
Update "/etc/resolv.conf" in a guest:
virt-copy-in -d MyGuest resolv.conf /etc
Upload a home directory to a guest:
virt-copy-in -d MyGuest skel /home
JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH
This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "copy-in" command. For anything more complex than a trivial
copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.
OPTIONS
Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.
SEE ALSO
guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), virt-tar-out(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.
AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc. <http://libguestfs.org/>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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