I have multiple VMware machines; they're all running Windows server, and I would like to run a program in all these machines, not by copying and double-click executing, but by using some VMware API to do that, just like VirtualBox SDK.
Is there any function in the VMware API that allows me to say to a VMware machine to execute a program?
As reported in the documentation of the VMware API, the function you need is VixVM_RunProgramInGuest(), which requires you to authenticate on the guest OS (the OS running on the virtual machine) with VixVM_LoginInGuest().
The documentation has an example on how to call a program in the guest OS; it's a complete example that shows how to connect to the virtual machine server, open a file defining a virtual machine, and power it on. The essential code is the following one; you should read the complete example, though.
// Authenticate for guest operations.
jobHandle = VixVM_LoginInGuest(vmHandle,
"vixuser", // userName
"secret", // password
0, // options
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL // clientData
);
err = VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (VIX_OK != err) {
// Handle the error.
goto abort;
}
Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);
// Run the target program.
jobHandle = VixVM_RunProgramInGuest(vmHandle,
"c:\\myProgram.exe",
"/flag arg1 arg2",
0, // options
VIX_INVALID_HANDLE, // propertyListHandle
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL // clientData
);
err = VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (VIX_OK != err) {
// Handle the error.
goto abort;
}
Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);
The part to connect to the virtual machine server is the following one.
jobHandle = VixHost_Connect(VIX_API_VERSION,
VIX_SERVICEPROVIDER_VMWARE_SERVER,
NULL, // hostName
0, // hostPort
NULL, // userName
NULL, // password
0, // options
VIX_INVALID_HANDLE, // propertyListHandle
NULL, // callbackProc
NULL // clientData
);
err = VixJob_Wait(jobHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_JOB_RESULT_HANDLE, &hostHandle, VIX_PROPERTY_NONE);
if (VIX_OK != err) {
// Handle the error.
goto abort;
}
Vix_ReleaseHandle(jobHandle);
