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Martin Hope
Miau
Asked: 2012-05-11 09:56:37 +0800 CST
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I can see that I can start and stop a vm with virtualBox using VBoxManage. I m not sure this is the tool I need.

I m trying to write a script that

  1. Will boot the VM (different flavours of Windows)
  2. Run a custom piece of software (in my case an installer) and record the results of this
  3. power of the VM

I am aware of the existence of the web services and the API, however I couldnt find much online about point 2.

I would really appreciate some direction on this. ie should I use vboxmanage to start and stop the VMs and then run the installers in some other way? alternatively should I use the COM API, if so, any ideas of some samples on how to do step 2?

Not familiar with VirtualBox at all. But I can write code.

UPDATE: Should I be looking at Vagrant or Puppet? As you can probably guess this is a test suite for installers, and it would be great to be able to re use it.

Thanks

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Martin Hope
Miau
Asked: 2009-09-21 06:45:42 +0800 CST
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This is a strange one. I have a site set up on IIS 6, this site has a unique IP assigned to it. The strange thing is that it works from some locations and it just doesn't from other locations. DNS is resolving to the right IP address, however pinging to that address times out. Any ideas why the site doesn't work?

As a note, I have other sites running from the same VPS, but using a different IP address. and they are working fine.

Cheers

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