Re: Has anyone used CC to control a VM via VIX?

Hello Richard,

the ssh/scp protocols can be used if the target VM has a ssh server. Ant 
has a <sshexec/> and a <scp/> task which work well.
Depending upon how complex is the work to be done on the target server, 
you may want to also use ant remotely on the target server to do 
whatever you need to accomplish.

There are lots of other solutions. There is a framework called smartfrog 
http://wiki.smartfrog.org/wiki/display/sf/SmartFrog+Home which has been 
developed to address the kind of needs that you describe.

Regards,

Antoine


Ginter, Richard D wrote:
> I've recently been tasked with researching how to automate the build 
> process where I work.  As part of this research process I came across 
> the Cruise Control application and I've got a rather important 
> question.  Has anyone out there been able to get Cruise Control to 
> control a VM running under VMWare Workstation?
>
> Currently our build process involves two VM instances, one where we 
> perform our build that goes onto our baseline server and another where 
> we produce cloned VM drives that become the basis for the development 
> environment for all our developers.  I need to be able to get Cruise 
> Control to send commands to these VMs to do tasks like taking 
> snapshots, doing rollbacks, etc.  The hardest part though would be 
> sending ANT based command line commands to the VM to be executed by 
> the guest OS.
>  
> Does anyone out there have any experience doing this and know of a 
> good reference?  Any help finding out more would be greatly appreciated!
>  
> --Richard


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