Vagrant shell provisionning on a Windows Guest (background task issue)

[Clément Sezettre]

Hi,

I have a problem while provisionning  my virtual machine with shell script, the script should launch normally a .exe file but instead starts the .exe in background task.

I'd like to know if someone met the same issue before.

[Clément Sezettre]

My windows Guest is a Windows Server 2012.

 I did exactly the same as the tutorial https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows

My batch file is a start command to launch a .exe on the guest machine.

[Clément Sezettre]

Is it the "vagrant-elevated-shell.ps1" in C:\Temp that create the scheduled task ?

Because when i change something in the code of the ps1 file. Nothing happened in the Task scheduler.

In the task  "WinRM_Elevated_Shell", "Run whether user is logged on or not" is checked and because the other choice is not checked "Run only when user is logged on" the script start in background. I'd like to find a way to modify the code that create the task in order to check the other choice.

If anyone has a idea, i'm completly lost.

[Shawn Neal]

I don't know why you're trying to do this, but the Vagrant source which generates the scheduled task is here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/master/plugins/communicators/winrm/scripts/elevated_shell.ps1.erb

You can also _not_ use a scheduled task with the shell provision by setting elevated => false.

[Shawn Neal]

Should have said privileged => false

[Clément Sezettre]

I created a script with "AutoIt" to install a software in silent mode. But the .exe can only be launched in interactive process.

I want with Vagrant to launch this .exe in Interactive. with this setting (privileged=false) nothing happens now.

[Clément Sezettre]

I'll try to explain it a bit more detailled.

I have a Windows 7 Host and windows 2012/windows 2008 guests

on guests there is a .exe file in c:\vagrant\thinkserver, i want this file to be launch in interactive mode thanks to the shell provisioning.

The .exe file is an AutoIt script, this script will install a complete software.

I would like to start this file as if i doubled click on it. I don't know if this is possible. 

Thanks for helping me.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

in windows there is a command called open

can you do cmd

open /?

and see those options?

usually open /min <lelele.exe>  will open a new task minimized but foreground..

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[Clément Sezettre]

I've been looking http://ss64.com/nt/ for a while now and i didn't find any command to play a windows in foreground.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

My bad! sorry

start /?

http://ss64.com/nt/start.html

start /min cmd

will open a new cmd command minimized but in foregroud

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Clément Sezettre <clement....@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been looking http://ss64.com/nt/ for a while now and i didn't find any command to play a windows in foreground.

[Clément Sezettre]

Nop still not working, I think it's because WinRM works in background on the guest machine.  

[Shawn McCarthy]

I had a similar problem (I was starting a batch script using the Vagrant file, but the batch script doesn't finish. It is a service, so it stays open, waiting commands. The Command Prompt on my windows VM wasn't appearing either. It was in the Processes List thought I think.)

The way I fixed it was by using my Vagrant file to add the batch script to the Task Scheduler, than running that new scheduled task using the Vagrant file.


Here is an example :

$start_selenium_grid = <<SCRIPT
schtasks /create /XML "C:/selenium-grid-extras/Selenium-Grid-Extras.xml" /TN "Selenium-Grid-Extras"
schtasks /run /tn "Selenium-Grid-Extras"
SCRIPT

  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => $start_selenium_grid



I was forced to use /XML instead of just passing in the information, because if I just passed in the information, it wouldn't run from the command line if not plugged in. Create the task manually one time in Task Scheduler, than export it to XML, and use that XML.

Inside the XML file you will see the command to run my batch script.


I hope this helps!

Shawn

[Clément Sezettre]

Worked perfectly !! Thank you so much !