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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 1276

Talk to VM through host operating system

I have here a Windows distribution server that runs an ANT task to build enterprise software. What I need to do is to have the ANT task copy and run a VM image (Linux), and then...talk to that Linux VM through the host operating system (through the ant task itself). We need to be able to send files and/or commands to it.

Is there a practical way to go about this? I know that we already have a way to send commands to VMs that are also running Windows (so windows-windows interaction) -- but is there a way to do a windows-linux interaction?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 191

Answers (3)

Anton
Anton

Reputation: 827

I've implemented the thing you wanted. Of course, for my own purposes, and then just found this question by googling on keywords "vmware" and "ant".

https://github.com/zhuravlik/ant-vix-tasks

This is the taskset for Ant to manage VMWare VMs. It works via VIX API, so Linux guests should be supported by it.

I did not test it with VMWare Server, though. Only with Workstation. But the API is common, so it should work.

Upvotes: 3

T.J. Crowder
T.J. Crowder

Reputation: 1073968

It will depend on what you need to do, but:

  • The Linux system could expose an SSH server, and the host can do just about anything it needs to via SSH.
  • The Linux system could expose a web service that the host consumes.
  • The Linux system could expose a Samba share which the host then connects to and reads/writes from (if all you need to do is deal with some files, but that seems unlikely).

There are probably dozens of options.

Upvotes: 2

unbeli
unbeli

Reputation: 30228

Using ssh is probably the simplest. There is an ant task for that. Scp task is also there to copy files

Upvotes: 2

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