Vista - VBscript, VirtualPC and WMI

Given a VM running as a guest in VirtualPC, is there any way to get
information about the PC hosting VirtualPC?
In other words, can I run a VBscript in the guest PC and get information
(via WMI?) about the host, i.e. the hostname, the IP address, the serial
number and so on?
Regards
Mario

Mario wrote:
Yes, it's like any other PC you can ping. Just use the NetBIOS name of the
host PC when binding with WMI.

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Thank you for your message.

I suspect I misposed my question: I need to get information from the guest
about the host.

Up to now the only information I was able to get is the hostname of the
host, while inspecting the:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters\PhysicalHostName

registry key.

Is there any way to get more detailed information, i.e. the BIOS serial
mumber, the MAC address, and so on?

A possible solution could be running a script from the guest to be executed
to the host and passing back the results to the guest.

I made some tests using the COM port, with no success...

Regards

Marius



"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxx> ha scritto
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Once you have the NetBIOS name of the host computer, you should be able to
use these examples. First for BIOS information:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../hwbavb10.mspx

and this for network adapter information (including MAC address):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../nwlsvb05.mspx

Just use the computer name in place of "." (which means the local computer).
If you are a member of the local administrators group on the host computer
you have sufficient privileges.

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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