I have here a Windows distribution server that runs an ANT task to build enterprise software. What I need to do is to have the ANT task copy and run a VM image (Linux), and then…talk to that Linux VM through the host operating system (through the ant task itself). We need to be able to send files and/or commands to it.
Is there a practical way to go about this? I know that we already have a way to send commands to VMs that are also running Windows (so windows-windows interaction) — but is there a way to do a windows-linux interaction?
Using ssh is probably the simplest. There is an ant task for that. Scp task is also there to copy files