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Thanks for posting your followup. Any time people figure out their own problems, it's always very helpful when they let the rest of the community know the solutions. Josh On Monday April 04, 2011, Liz Wendland wrote: > Just thought I would update the list with my solution for this... > > A very smart colleague pointed me to the > > $self->reboot() > > method in Windows.pm classes. Using this I am able to force the VM to > reboot after I change the VM name, but still retain control so I can > join it to the domain. > > One note to others who are working with changing VM names... > > I found that changing the VM name ruined the sshd setup on my VM. It > required me to re-run the update_cygwin.cmd. Obviously I couldn't do > this from VCL since ssh was not working. I tried to add a registry > setting to: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\RunServic > es so it would run on startup. > > This did not work and I discovered that RunServices is apparently not > supported in Win7? Instead I was able to use schtasks.exe to create a > scheduled task to run update_cygwin.cmd. > > On 3/31/11 11:18 AM, Liz Wendland wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to do something that might not be possible in VCL, but > > maybe someone out there has an idea how I could make an easy > > modification to do it. > > > > We use VMware to provision our images on demand. We don't necessarily > > need to sysprep them - the VMs are pretty much ready to go after > > loading. Except for two things: > > > > * We need to rename the computer > > * We need to join the computer to our domain > > > > I have a script that can do both things, but it doesn't seem to work > > unless we reboot after each command. I have been able to get one > > reboot to happen by setting the imagemeta.postoption = 'reboot'. > > > > So my questions are: > > > > 1) Is it possible to get two reboots? i.e. somehow have my script do a > > reboot and have VCL pick up where it left off? > > 2) Is there already some way built into VCL to do what I want? I see > > a script in the Sysprep folder called set_computer_name.vbs but I > > believe this only gets called during Image Capture. We don't know > > what we want to name the computer until we are provisioning it for the > > reservation. > > > > Please let me know if I am not explaining things coherently. > > > > Thanks! - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2ZvV0ACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPPeQCeN57CuZUob9iQHm8cC1y9hEs7 424An2St8QsLxJMKWhUplZLl5rBQD1+c =XidY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
