Comments on: Automating Virtual Server, Part 2: Automating Virtual Server Using .NET

By: Samselvaprabu

Samselvaprabu — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:10:42 +0000

Thanks Dude for your quick response.

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:22:14 +0000

#10: Actually, I received an immediate bounce when sending to your e-mail address (apparently the attachment type is not allowed). I have updated this post to include a link to the source code (see the section titled “Update”). I hope this is helpful! – Anil

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:21:21 +0000

#10: Sure. I have just sent a zip file with source code via e-mail.

By: Samselvaprabu

Samselvaprabu — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:42:25 +0000

Can you please send the source code and presentation to my email id. as you have mailed to Deepak . thanks in advance

By: Rassurbalalse

Rassurbalalse — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:37:23 +0000

Thanks for writing, I very much liked your newest post. I think you should post more frequently, you evidently have natural ability for blogging!

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:55:46 +0000

Deepak: I currently don’t have direct links to the presentation and source code listed here. However, if you send me an e-mail (Anil@AnilDesai.net), I’d be happy to send that content to you directly.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:44:12 +0000

I clicked the following link provided by you

http://anildesai.net/Main/Technical/Virtualization/VirtualServerPresentations/tabid/73/Default.asp

but the link is not working
plz give an alternate download link

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:02:42 +0000

Alex – you’re right about some of this being outdated. Microsoft Virtual Server is no longer a current product, and it has been replaced largely with Hyper-V and Windows Virtual PC (for Vista and Windows 7). Still, if you install and configure MSVS on a computer, you should be able to reference the COM object. You can also manually browse to it if that’s what you’re trying to do. My recommendation would be to move to Hyper-V if that’s at all possible. I hope this helps!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:46:24 +0000

developing with VS2008 on my Vista machine, I am finding this info to be outdated. For example, there’s no “Virtual Server” COM object in my list of references.

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:59:21 +0000

Sumit,

It’s somewhat cleverly hidden on my web site, but you can download presentations, source code, and a sample application from this page:

http://anildesai.net/Main/Technical/Virtualization/VirtualServerPresentations/tabid/73/Default.aspx

I tend to code primarily in VB.NET, but I wrote this sample code in C# because I was presenting to a local users’ group. I hope this is helpful!

By: Sumit

Sumit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:08:14 +0000

Hi Anil,

I have to automate the process of VM creation and maintenance through VB.NET. Your articles and web casts have been very helpful. An example would be very helpful to get me started on this. But I am unable to download the VS application mentioned above.
Can you provide the url to download page.

Thanks.

By: Anil Desai

Anil Desai — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:42:51 +0000

Maddy,

While I don’t have any specific experience with automating VMware ESX, you should be able to find several articles that cover the topic at http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/. Andrew Kutz and other writers are familiar with the process for accessing VMware’s APIs. You can also find more information on Andrew’s web site at http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware. I hope this is helpful. Good luck!

- Anil

By: Maddy

Maddy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:00 +0000

Hi,
Even i am doing a same project in C# for automating VMWARE ESX Server. In this project i am supposed to transfer an VMX image to a remote system and then start the image and test various operations like start, suspend, hibernate, restart.

Also i need to install new apps and try it. I have done most of the code and was wondering if you have any PPT or PDF which can help me as a report for the same.