Comments on: Better console for PowerShell and VITK http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: buraq http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-13479 buraq Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:18:22 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-13479 Thanks Eric. Thanks Eric.

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-13477 Eric Gray Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:33:12 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-13477 This is the PowerShell management interface that is now known as PowerCLI. This is the PowerShell management interface that is now known as PowerCLI.

]]> By: buraq http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-13474 buraq Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:50:49 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-13474 What is this 'VI Toolkit (for Windows)' ??? Is it what's called now vSphere SDK for Perl (??) Or am I mixing it up with something else? TIA What is this ‘VI Toolkit (for Windows)’ ???

Is it what’s called now vSphere SDK for Perl (??) Or am I mixing it up with something else?

TIA

]]> By: Tao Yue http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-10983 Tao Yue Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:26:29 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-10983 The way that Console2 works is that it brings up a standard console window far off-screen, hiding it, then screen-scraping and sending keystrokes to the (real) console window. So if the authentication window sometimes pops up in the background, just be happy that it doesn't pop-up offscreen! The way that Console2 works is that it brings up a standard console window far off-screen, hiding it, then screen-scraping and sending keystrokes to the (real) console window.

So if the authentication window sometimes pops up in the background, just be happy that it doesn’t pop-up offscreen!

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-9731 Eric Gray Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:20:13 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-9731 Thanks, Tim! Thanks, Tim!

]]> By: TimC http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-9728 TimC Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:28:20 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-9728 I realize this post is over a year old, but I found it very helpful. With vitk basically being deprecated in favor of powercli, the vi-toolkit line needs to change. Lines 102 and 103 should look like this: <tab title="vSphere PowerCLI" icon="vitk15.ico"> This should all be one line: <console shell="C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -NoExit -Command ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-VIToolkitEnvironment.ps1\" "" init_dir="c:\scripts"/> Hopefully someone else that stumbles upon this finds it helpful. I realize this post is over a year old, but I found it very helpful. With vitk basically being deprecated in favor of powercli, the vi-toolkit line needs to change. Lines 102 and 103 should look like this:

<tab title=”vSphere PowerCLI” icon=”vitk15.ico”>

This should all be one line:

<console shell=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -NoExit -Command ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-VIToolkitEnvironment.ps1\" "” init_dir=”c:\scripts”/>

Hopefully someone else that stumbles upon this finds it helpful.

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-339 Eric Gray Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:17:30 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-339 Thanks for the updates, guys. Good to hear. Thanks for the updates, guys. Good to hear.

]]> By: Duane Haas http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-338 Duane Haas Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:21:25 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-338 my issue was i had not downloaded the latest build, probably downloaded the oldest build. got the latest and now all is good my issue was i had not downloaded the latest build, probably downloaded the oldest build. got the latest and now all is good

]]> By: Christian Mohn (h0bbel) http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-337 Christian Mohn (h0bbel) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:11:42 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-337 Yay, success! Got it working on 64bit, with the patched Console2 version and edits to the console.xml file! Great stuff! Yay, success! Got it working on 64bit, with the patched Console2 version and edits to the console.xml file! Great stuff!

]]> By: Christian Mohn (h0bbel) http://www.vcritical.com/2009/02/better-console-for-powershell-and-vitk/#comment-336 Christian Mohn (h0bbel) Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:05:36 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=584#comment-336 Excellent. I'll try the 64bit build at work tomorrow and revert back. Excellent. I’ll try the 64bit build at work tomorrow and revert back.

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