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python 3.5 windows 10 how to run exe - jipete - Dec-25-2016
Hello, I would like to make a script in python that clones VMWare virtual machines by running the executable vmrun.exe, but I do not know how to do, I try with subprocess, but I do not understand how to pass my arguments here my Code:
import subprocess argument = '-T ws clone D:\\clone\\clone.vmx D:\\clone\\clone_1.vmx linked -cloneName="clone_1"' subprocess.call(['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware Workstation\\vmrun.exe', argument])Here is the complete command I want to execute:
vmrun -T ws clone D:\clone\clone.vmx D:\clone\clone_0.vmx linked -cloneName="clone_0"
RE: python 3.5 windows 10 how to run exe - snippsat - Dec-25-2016
Quote:Here is the complete command I want to execute:So should be:
['vmrun', '-T', 'ws', 'clone', 'D:/clone/clone.vmx', 'D:/clone/clone_0.vmx', 'linked', '-cloneName=clone_0']If command run from cmd without path,it should probably work without full path.
With path,and always make it a list then default is
shell=False in subprocess:>>> path = 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware Workstation\\vmrun.exe' >>> argument = ['-T', 'ws', 'clone', 'D:/clone/clone.vmx', 'D:/cloneclone_0.vmx', 'linked', '-cloneName=clone_0'] >>> argument.insert(0, path) >>> argument ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware Workstation\\vmrun.exe', '-T', 'ws', 'clone', 'D:/clone/clone.vmx', 'D:/cloneclone_0.vmx', 'linked', '-cloneName=clone_0'] >>> print(argument) # One line ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware Workstation\\vmrun.exe', '-T', 'ws', 'clone', 'D:/clone/clone.vmx', 'D:/cloneclone_0.vmx', 'linked', '-cloneName=clone_0']
RE: python 3.5 windows 10 how to run exe - jipete - Dec-25-2016
Thank you very much it works!
I understood commuting was working subprocess.call