Seb wrote:
Hi,
I've recently switched to VirtualBox from VMWare, and would like to know
how to run a DOS command in a Windows XP virtual machine from a shell in
my Debian sid host. I've read the manual, and it seems VirtualBox
doesn't offer this possibility, unless I missed something. Any advice
is appreciated.
Cheers,
Windows does not really have a good way to execute a remote shell -
there is no native equivalent to running a sshd server for remote shells
as there is in Linux. The two solutions I can think of is to run a
cygwin sshd (or telnetd) server on the XP machine, or to use "psexec"
(from the "sysinternals" suite, which can be downloaded from MS's
website). "psexec" lets you run commands on a remote windows machine,
as long as you have an administrator-level username and password. By
running the command "cmd" (i.e., the windows command line interpreter),
you can get some of the effect of a remote shell login. Of course,
"psexec" is a windows program - perhaps it can be executed under wine on
the debian machine?
If you find a better method, I'd love to hear it!
mvh.,
David
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