Determine name of host from Guest

[Les Landau]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way of programatically determining the name of the
host GSX system when running on a guest machine?

Both are windows servers, and I'd like to do this for documentation (and
other) reasons - to be able to run code remotely that will tell me the name
of host if the target is a guest.

Preferably if this would work from VBScript or VB (haven't got into Perl
yet!!).

Any help most appreciated.

Thanks,
Les

[Martin Mewes]

Hi Les,

Post by Les Landau
Does anyone know of a way of programatically determining the name of the
host GSX system when running on a guest machine?
Both are windows servers, and I'd like to do this for documentation (and
other) reasons - to be able to run code remotely that will tell me the name
of host if the target is a guest.
Preferably if this would work from VBScript or VB (haven't got into Perl
yet!!).

I am not sure if this is possible as a guest system is totally separate from
the host system. What I can think about is if both the guest and the host
are registered on the same WINS server on the hosts network you could parse
the "pathping $internethost" or "tracert $internethost" output somehow.

On the other hand there are some things which should (and can) be documented
manually with a pencil and a paper ;-)
bis dahin / kind regards

Martin Mewes