You may want to look into PowerShell on the Microsoft side... Good luck! :)
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 00:56, Alexey Eremenko <al4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Seb <splu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:37:27 +0100, >> David Brown <david.br...@hesbynett.no> wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Windows does not really have a good way to execute a remote shell - >>> there is no native equivalent to running a sshd server for remote >>> shells as there is in Linux. The two solutions I can think of is to >>> run a cygwin sshd (or telnetd) server on the XP machine, or to use >>> "psexec" (from the "sysinternals" suite, which can be downloaded from >>> MS's website). "psexec" lets you run commands on a remote windows >>> machine, as long as you have an administrator-level username and >>> password. By running the command "cmd" (i.e., the windows command >>> line interpreter), you can get some of the effect of a remote shell >>> login. Of course, "psexec" is a windows program - perhaps it can be >>> executed under wine on the debian machine? >> >>> If you find a better method, I'd love to hear it! >> >> Thanks for the feedback. I'm looking for this functionality to be able >> to call a couple of programs on the XP virtual machine from a DOS batch >> script, and it's burdensome to have to manually start the virtual >> machine, open a DOS prompt window and finally run the DOS batch script. >> I was hoping the whole thing could be done from a shell script, but it >> seems as if that's not possible. I'll tag this thread in case I find >> some alternative in the future! >> >> > > I have opened a feature request for a similar topic for UNIX guests: > http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/893 > > ...but this topic could be extended to Windows guests too... > Feel free to add comments there. (and maybe you could describe the > problem better than I) > > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
