Ovmcli change ip on guest machine (running Windows XP)

Question

Hello,
I'm new to OracleVM but find it very useful.
We had previous expierences with VMWare virtualization in our company
(VMWare server 2.0). It had VMWare tools which included cli (command line interface).
I need to change IP address of Windows XP guest machine.
To be exact: our guest machine is running windows XP, our host is Oracle VM.
We want to change IP from let's say: 10.60.60.200 to 10.60.60.201 on our guest machine running XP.
In WMWare we used:
$command = "netsh interface ip set address LAN static 10.60.60.200 255.255.255.0 10.60.60.1 1";
and a command that fired the action $command:
vmrun -T server -h HOST_IP_ADDRESS -u HOST_USER -p HOST_PASSWORD -gu GUEST_USER -gp GUEST_PASSWORD runScriptInGuest "DATASTORE TEMP/xxx.vmx" cmd /c & $command;
Is there something similar to "runScriptInGuest" or is there any other way to change IP of guest machine in Oracle VM?
I tried to use
ovmcli with:
vm nic conf
but the options don't include changing IP.
As far as I can see there is only:
--serverpool_name
--vm_name
--nic_name
--new_nic_name
--bridge
--rate_limit
--enable_qos
--disable_qos
options available for configuring network interface adapters.
Bert

Answer 1

The problem with changing IP inside the virtual machine (windows XP) is that
we use dynamic virtual machines. By 'dynamic' I mean that we have a set of templates that
we clone, start, configure and then run application tests on them. The purpose of all
this is that we want to have identical operating environement for all tests. In this way
we can relate to results as done on exactly the same computer.
The whole process (cloning, starting, configuring, restarting, running application tests and then pausing VM) is done
from scripts - so we CANNOT just manually log via VNC into machine and change it's IP.
We tried to use STAF (http://staf.sourceforge.net/) but it operates on IP
so we can run with this tool any task except changing machine's IP.
(STAF doesn't deal with the change of IP in time.
Apart from this it sends response with new IP when
server excepects response from old IP).
Summerizing - runScriptInGuest from VMWare solved the problem for us
because it ran a CONSOLE command inside Windows Guest
which changed the IP. runScriptInGuest doesn't rely on
machine's IP so everything ran smooth.
Is there any other way to change this ip
from SCRIPT. I mean some way to run this command
remotely on windows or do this through OracleVM virtual machine configuration ?
I hope it clears the question.
Bert