Controlling VM lifecycle from the command line?

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by nchaugen, Sep 21, 2006.

  1. nchaugen

    nchaugen Bit poster

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    We are developing a web application and are looking into using Parallels for cross-platform browser testing. As we are writing automated tests, we would like to start and shutdown virtual machines from the command line, so that we can set up a job to automatically run the tests for each platform when a new build of the application is available.

    Will Parallels allow us to do this?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Andrew @ Parallels

    Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team

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    1. Full scripting API is planned for next major version.
    2. For now you can prepare VM configuration (*.pvs file) with autostart option and run VM from script using command Parallels.exe <name>.pvs . To shutdown VM you can use terminate command on Parallels.exe process.
     
  3. nchaugen

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    Thanks Andrew. Sounds like that might work for us.

    When is the next major version due?
     
  4. Andrew @ Parallels

    Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team

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    Q1 of 2007 most likely.
     

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