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ennha1
ennha1

Reputation: 1

Calling PowerShell script inside guest VM with PowerCLI Invoke-VMScript

Inside my guest VM, I have a PowerShell script that does some automation. However, I am trying to invoke that PowerShell script from outside using PowerCLI (inside PowerShell). Currently, my script works but instead of "running" the PowerShell script inside the guest VM, it opens it as a text file instead. Also, inside the guest VM, there is a interactive services detection that pops up when I call the below script. How can I resolve these issues?

add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core 

Connect-VIServer 192.168.1.29 # connects to vCenter 

$vm = Get-VM -name 'CentOS 7'
$script = '"C:\Automation\StartServices.ps1"'
Invoke-VMScript -vm $vm -ScriptText $script -GuestUser 'user' - GuestPassword 'password' -ScriptType Powershell

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9753

Answers (1)

Jelphy
Jelphy

Reputation: 1059

Use single, or double quotes for your $script path but not both:

$script = 'C:\Automation\StartServices.ps1'

This seems to be the only issue. Tested & working in my PowerCLI environment.

Upvotes: 1

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