SshCommand, ScpCommand],
verbose=True)
# this is a good way to preflight check
VMwareHypervisor.localRequired()
# BEGIN essential example code
ipaddress = "192.168.0.166"
# a possible modification pointed out
# makes sense e.g. if used together with whateverVm.vmxFile.setEthernetAdapter(adapter, "hostonly")
#ipaddress = IPAddress.numberWithinSubnet(VMwareHypervisor.localHostOnlyIPAddress, 166)
rootpw = "redwood"
# Ubuntu kickstart supports only one regular user
regularUser = ("jack","rainbow")
# one possible way of making new VM names and directories
name = IPAddress.nameWithNumber("example", ipaddress, separator=None)
exampleVm = VMwareMachine(ScriptUser.loggedIn.userHomeRelative("vmware/examples/%s/%s.vmx" % (name, name)))
# make the virtual machine
exists = exampleVm.vmxFile.exists()
if exists == False:
exampleVm.mkdir()
downloadedDistroIsoImage = UbIsoImage(Download.fromUrl
("http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.3-alternate-i386.iso"))
# some possible choices pointed out
# server w command line only
kickstartFileContent = UbKickstartFileContent(UbKickstartTemplates.usableUbKickstartTemplate001)
kickstartFileContent.replaceRootpw(rootpw)
kickstartFileContent.ubReplaceHostname(exampleVm.basenameStem)
kickstartFileContent.ubCreateNetworkConfigurationSection()
kickstartFileContent.ubAddNetworkConfigurationStatic(device="eth0", ipaddress=ipaddress, nameservers=Nameserver.list)
# put in DHCP at eth0, to be used with NAT, works well if before hostonly
#kickstartFileContent.ubAddNetworkConfigurationDhcp("eth0")
optionsParser = OptionParser(
usage="%prog [options] vmxfile command [arguments]",
description="""Send a command to a VM.
Assumes .ports file to exist and to have an entry for ssh for the user.""",
version="%prog 1.0")
optionsParser.add_option("-u",
"--user",
type="string",
dest="user",
help="user, default %default",
default="root")
(options, args) = optionsParser.parse_args()
# preflight checks
SystemRequirements.commandsRequiredByImplementations([SshCommand],
verbose=False)
if len(args) < 1:
optionsParser.error("did not find vmxfile argument")
vmx = args.pop(0)
vm = VMwareMachine(vmx)
if len(args) < 1:
optionsParser.error("did not find command argument")
commandAndArguments = args[0:]
sshCommand = vm.sshCommand(commandAndArguments, user=options.user)
print sshCommand.output
