This is a Vagrant plugin to execute commands inside a VM from the host machine.

NB This was only tested with Vagrant 2.0.3 and Windows Server 2016.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-execute

The general syntax is:

vagrant execute [vm-name] [--sudo] <-c|--command> <command>

To troubleshoot, set the VAGRANT_LOG environment variable to debug.

In this repo there's an example Vagrantfile. Use it to launch an example.

Install the Base Windows Box.

Launch the VM:

vagrant up

Execute a command without and with administrative privileges and compare the results:

vagrant execute -c 'whoami /all'        >whoami.txt
vagrant execute -c 'whoami /all' --sudo >whoami-sudo.txt
meld whoami.txt whoami-sudo.txt # or diff -u whoami.txt whoami-sudo.txt

To hack on this plugin you need to install Bundler and other dependencies. On Ubuntu:

sudo apt install bundler libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev

Then use it to install the dependencies:

bundle

Build this plugin gem:

rake

Then install it into your local vagrant installation:

vagrant plugin install pkg/vagrant-execute-*.gem

You can later run everything in one go:

rake && vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-execute && vagrant plugin install pkg/vagrant-execute-*.gem