Is it possible to manage VM programmatically?

[Alexander Sviridov]

Hello,

I want to manage VM programmatically inside a build process. Does anybody know ways to run, pause, shutdown etc. VM? Are there SDK, API or command line client to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[sandro]

Hi.

Public SDK was appeared at Parallels Server 3.0. This product contains C interface with dynamically link library and Python binding using this API. Also for use cases that you specified above (start/stop/shutdown VMs) it's quite convenient to use command line utility prlctl.

with best regards
Alexander

[Alexander Sviridov]

I have found the SDK for the Parallels Server, thanks. But I plan to use the Parallels Workstation. What is about this tool? Is there any SDK for it?

[sandro]

No, currently released PW version doesn't have SDK. But you can try Parallels Server for Linux/Windows. These products are in beta stage now but they'll be released soon. Also further versions of Parallels Desktop (Workstation) will have SDK but i can't to provide you with concrete dates of these products releases.

with best regards
Alexander

[Alexander Sviridov]

I'll try to use Parallels Server. Thank for your help.