Hi Achim, OpenExistingConnection() works fine. However, I would like to find out if it is possible to power ON a VM in the GUI session without opening the console. This is important for me since I am not creating a front-end. I would still use the GUI as the front-end and only create/manage virtual machines from the commandline.
I have not looked at XIDL. So, I am unsure on how to autogenerate PS scripts from that. I will look in to that sson. Thanks Ravi > If you want to do something on an already running VM, you have to do OpenExistingSession. Check the VBoxManage source code. > > PowerShell integration is a good idea, best would be to auto-generate the > integration based on our XIDL, the way we do it for all the other APIs. > > Achim. > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:19 , [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am new to VirtualBox and exploring the COM interfaces to see how I can >> manage vBox VM from PowerShell cmdline. So far, I am able to CreateVM, RegisterVM, UnregisterVM and List virtual machines. Also, I could open a >> remote session using OpenRemoteSession. However, I would like to be able >> to change the state of VM without opening a remote session. Using openRemoteSession brings up the console window and I do not want to do that. >> Here is a set of commands I am currently running >> #Initialize COM >> $vBox = New-Object -ComObject VirtualBox.VirtualBox >> $vBoxSession = New-Object -ComObject VirtualBox.Session >> #Get VM1 in to $vm >> $vm = $vBox.Machines[0] >> #Open a remote session >> $vBox.OpenRemoteSession($vBoxSession,$vm.Id,"gui",$null) >> I can use now use the "$vBoxSession.Console" (PowerDown, etc) to change the PowerState. Is there a way I can just Power on/off, Pause and resume >> a >> virtual machine in the remote session (GUI) without opening the console? >> Thanks for your time, >> Ravi >> PS: I am aware of vBoxManage.exe but my idea of creating a PowerShell library is to make it easy to manage VB guests over PowerShell remoting channel. >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
