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\\RunServices
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!
