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.

NOTE: All functions that execute in a guest operating system require VMware Tools to be installed and running. Additionally, a valid guest login is required to run this activity.

Available activities

Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity:

Activity Description
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.