[email protected] schrieb:
Klaus,
I am not trying to solve a problem but trying to create a PowerShell
wrapper around VirtualBox COM. Most of what I do (and there are a bunch of
others) is automated in PowerShell and using vboxmanage.exe for automation
isn't a better way when there is a rich set of COM interfaces available.
Then I apparently didn't understand at all why you asked for a way to
"power ON a VM in the GUI session without opening the console".
Klaus
Ravi
[email protected] wrote:
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.
The only way to start a VM via the API is
IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession. There are no intentions to change this.
I think you described pretty much everything by now except the real
problem you're trying to solve.
Klaus
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.
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