[SOLVED] Windows qm guest exec powershell got timeout

[rml]

Think I'm being stupid with syntax here, fresh install with Serial drivers and qm guest agents installed

I'm having trouble getting powershell commands working

e.g.

oot@pve:~# qm guest exec 108 -- "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" "/c"  "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" "-Command" "dir"
VM 108 qmp command 'guest-exec-status' failed - got timeout

root@pve:~# qm guest exec 108 -- "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" "-Command" "dir"
VM 108 qmp command 'guest-exec-status' failed - got timeout

root@pve:~# qm guest exec 108 -- C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command dir
Agent error: Guest agent command failed, error was 'Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory)'

Powershell -Command dir works from the guest machine

Thanks in advance

EDITS: rewrote question after solving original cmd.exe problem

I've managed to cmd working
e.g.
qm guest exec 108 -- "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" "/c" "dir"

for me next time:
note the quotes of all all arguments, I did that because I didn't appreciate what the -- was doing so may not be totally necessary but worked
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11376/what-does-double-dash-mean

 

[oguz]

hi,

this works here:

qm guest exec 2000 "powershell.exe" "whoami"
{
   "exitcode" : 0,
   "exited" : 1,
   "out-data" : "nt authority\\system\r\n"
}

qm guest exec 2000 "powershell.exe" "ls /users/"
{
   "exitcode" : 0,
   "exited" : 1,
   "out-data" : "\r\n\r\n    Directory: C:\\users\r\n\r\n\r\nMode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name                                                                 \r\n----                 -------------         ------ ----                                                                 \r\nd-r---         8/11/2020  12:52 PM                Public                                                               \r\nd-----         4/15/2021  11:31 AM                user                                                                 \r\n\r\n\r\n"
}

no need to separate with -c or /c in powershell case

for cmd the following syntax works:

qm guest exec 2000 "cmd" "/c whoami"
qm guest exec 2000 "cmd" "/c whoami /all"

hope this helps

 

[rml]

Clearly overcomplicating it as always, that's really helpful, thanks Oguz

 

[dcsapak]

just fyi, even easier is it with the '--' separator

qm guest exec 2000 -- cmd /c whoami

no quoting of the arguments necessary