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- — VMWareTasks 1.7 Released
- — VMWareTasks Moved to Github
I moved the popular VMWareTasks C# library from CodePlex to Github.
- — VirtualBox: Linux on Windows
I am going to say nice things about Oracle software. Brace yourself.
- — VMWareTasks 1.5 Released
- — VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 Automation: Insufficient permissions in host operating system
One of our servers was upgraded to VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 and automation that uses RemoteInstall (and VMWareTasks) broke. The first part was easy, we needed to download and install t...
- — RemoteInstall Test Framework 1.2 Released
I’ve released the RemoteInstaller Test Framework 1.2. It’s the second open-source release, and I am pleased to see some community adoption. RemoteInstall is a system for automat...
- — VMWareTasks: collecting Guest OS environment variables
All VMWare VixCOM users eventually go through a moment of being puzzled with the behavior of VixCOM ReadVariable function used with VIX_GUEST_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE (read this thr...
- — VMWareTasks: reading RunProgramInGuest command output
This is a pretty common question on the VixCOM forum: How do I run a command in the virtual machine and collect its output?
- — RemoteInstall: supporting reboots between installers
We’ve recently upgraded the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 C++ Redistributable to a newer version with the ATL security update. We quickly found that the installer requires a reboot in ...
- — RemoteInstall Test Framework Open-Sourced
I am pleased to announce the open sourcing of the RemoteInstall Test Framework.
- — VMWareTasks 1.3 for VixCOM 1.7.0 (let's reinvent less wheels)
I’ve released VMWareTasks 1.3 for VixCOM 1.6.3 and 1.7.0.
- — VMWareTasks 1.2: RC1
- — VMWare Tasks .NET Library for VixCOM
- — Abstracting a cumbersome construct in VIX API: GetNumProperties + GetNthProperty
Did I tell you how much I love yield return?
- — Getting the display name of a VMWare snapshot
Looking at the source code of another VMWare C# wrapper on CodePlex, turns out that most VMWare interfaces represent VMWare handles. This is a good decision from the design poin...
- — Copying files to/from VMWare guest OS is slow: an alternate approach
I really like VMWare VIX API’s CopyFileFromGuestToHost and CopyFileFromHostToGuest. These automatically copy a single file or an entire directory tree. Easy. Unfortunately I am ...
- — Announcing the VMWare Tasks Library
- — Remote Control, Copy and Run programs on a VMware Workstation or VI server using VIX APIs
I’ve been playing with VMware lately, both Workstation and VMware Infrastructure (VI). The company has really stepped up with the new SDKs and the level of programmable interfac...