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
