On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Seb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:37:27 +0100, > David Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > >> 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! > > Thanks for the feedback. I'm looking for this functionality to be able > to call a couple of programs on the XP virtual machine from a DOS batch > script, and it's burdensome to have to manually start the virtual > machine, open a DOS prompt window and finally run the DOS batch script. > I was hoping the whole thing could be done from a shell script, but it > seems as if that's not possible. I'll tag this thread in case I find > some alternative in the future! > >
I have opened a feature request for a similar topic for UNIX guests: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/893 ...but this topic could be extended to Windows guests too... Feel free to add comments there. (and maybe you could describe the problem better than I) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
