vmrun

A wrapper for VMWare CLI (vmrun) with Promises,

Includes:

• Full stdout/stderr output
• Possibility to run an "unimplemented" vmrun feature using the .vmrun(...) call
• Interfaces for many of the common features like starting/stopping a VM, taking snapshots, running and killing processes, moving/copying files between host and guest etc.
• Crossplatform

Installation:

npm install --save vmrun

Usage example:

 
var VMRun = require('vmrun');
 
VMRun.setOptions({
    hostType: 'ws' // Workstation
    , guestUsername: 'user'
    , guestPassword: '1234'
});
 
VMRun
  .start('/home/user/vmware/machine/machine.vmx')
  .then(function () {
    return VMRun.poweroff('/home/user/vmware/otherMachine/otherMachine.vmx')
  })
  .catch(function (err) {
    console.log(err);
  })
 

Another way of setting options for controlling the vms, is using VMRun.withOptions(options) to get a new VMRun instance with the new options, or using VMRun.withModifiedOptions(options) to get a new VMRun instance with the new options inheriting from the current options.

var VMRun = require('vmrun')
    .setOptions({
        hostType: 'ws'
    });

VMRun
    .withModifiedOptions({ guestUsername: 'user1', guestPassword: '123' })
    .deleteFileInGuest('/home/user/vmware/machine/machine.vmx', 'C:\\Windows\\Temp\\temp.file')
    .then(function (std) {

    });

VMRun
    .withModifiedOptions({ guestUsername: 'user2', guestPassword: '123' })
    .deleteFileInGuest('/home/user/vmware/machine/machine.vmx', 'C:\\Windows\\Temp\\temp.file')
    .then(function (std) {

    });

Options for configuring VMRun are:

• {String?} hostName
• {Number?} hostPort
• {VMWareHostType?} hostType
• {String?} hostUsername
• {String?} hostPassword
• {String?} guestUsername
• {String?} guestPassword
• {String?} vmPassword

Host types are:

• 'ws' = VMWare Workstation
• 'server1' = VMWare Server 1.0
• 'server' = VMWare Server 2.0
• 'ws-shared' = VMWare Workstation (Shared Mode)
• 'esx' = VMWare ESX
• 'vc' = VMWare vCenter Server

All options are in the JSDocs!

Contributing

If you have anything to contribute, or functionality that you lack - you are more than welcome to participate in this! If anyone wishes to contribute unit tests - that also would be great :-)

Me

• Hi! I am Daniel Cohen Gindi. Or in short- Daniel.
• [e-mail] is my email address.
• That's all you need to know.

Help

If you want to buy me a beer, you are very welcome to Thanks :-)

License

All the code here is under MIT license. Which means you could do virtually anything with the code. I will appreciate it very much if you keep an attribution where appropriate.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Cohen Gindi ([e-mail])

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