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The Virtual Infrastructure metashell is an undocumented and unsupported shell accessible from within the console on an ESX server. | The Virtual Infrastructure metashell is an undocumented and unsupported shell accessible from within the console on an ESX server. | ||
It can be invoked from the shell when logged in as root user as an interactive shell. | It can be invoked from the shell when logged in as root user as an interactive shell. | ||
You can almost do anything from it what you can do from the Virtual Infrastructure client and is more powerful as the normal console commands. | |||
Below is some output of the shell that you get to see and the output of the "?" command: | |||
#vimsh | #vimsh | ||
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In recent versions of ESX, there's also a command line non interactive version of vimsh that can be used from within a script which is called [[vmware-vim-cmd]] | In recent versions of ESX, there's also a command line non interactive version of vimsh that can be used from within a script which is called [[vmware-vim-cmd]] | ||
==== List of commands ==== | |||
Following is a list of the availabled commands (the vimsh: prefix is only included as a namespace, so that it won't clash with other parts in the wiki, not sure if that's a smart thing to do...) | Following is a list of the availabled commands (the vimsh: prefix is only included as a namespace, so that it won't clash with other parts in the wiki, not sure if that's a smart thing to do...) | ||
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[[vimsh: pls]] | [[vimsh: pls]] | ||
[[vimsh: source]] | [[vimsh: source]] | ||
==== Background info ==== | |||
This command has its origin as a support shell only. | |||
It is rumored about that it will be supported in one of the upcoming versions of ESX | |||
==== External links ==== | |||
[http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/white-papers/scripting.html Xtravirt scripting papers about vimsh among others] | |||