VMware Guest
Description
Automate Desktop's VMware Guest action contains a variety of activities that lets you control an individual guest operating system or numerous guest operating systems running on multiple virtual machines. These activities can automate many common operations such as running a program or script, administer processes, create and manage directories and files, manage environment variables, create screen shots and much more. With these activities, you can run common tasks on a network where you have multiple virtual machines running on one or more physical machines. Automate Desktop supports the full suite of virtualization software including ESX, ESXi, Workstation, and Player.
Available activities
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Activity | Description |
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VMware Guest - Capture screen image | Captures the current screen image that appears on the guest virtual machine and saves it to a local file. |
VMware Guest - Connect | Connects to the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Copy file | Copies one or more files from the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Create directory | Creates a directory on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Create temp file | Creates a temp file on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Delete file | Delete's one or more files from the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Directory exists | Determines the existence of a directory on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Disconnect | Disconnects from the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - File exists | Determines the existence of one or more files on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Get environment variable | Retrieves the value of a system-level or user-level environment variable that resides on the guest virtual machine populates a variable with the results. |
VMware Guest - Get file information | Retrieves information regarding a file that resides in the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Get guest variable | Retrieves the value for a guest info variable. |
VMware Guest - Kill process | Kills a process running on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - List directory | Retrieves a directory listing on the guest virtual machine and populates a dataset with the results. |
VMware Guest - List processes | Retrieves a list of all processes currently running on the guest virtual machine and populates a dataset with the results. |
VMware Guest - Log on | Logs onto a guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Log out | Logs out of a guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Open URL | Opens a URL in the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Rename file | Renames a file that resides in the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Run program | Runs a program on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Run script | Runs a script on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Set environment variable | Sets an environment variable on the guest virtual machine. |
VMware Guest - Set guest variable | Sets a guest variable on the guest virtual machine. |