Control VM machines

Hi Guys, I need recommendations regarding an idea that I have.

What I am trying to do is i have installed 100 VM's on my home dedicated server. I can't find a way so far to control all of them at the same time. Like if I want to ask all of them to open the terminal, for example, I have to do it manually one by one.

What i am looking for is a script or software that can make me control and give commands to all VM's so that they can execute at the same time.

You can use parallel-ssh, pdsh, clusterssh or ansible - but why do you want to run 100 VMs on your home server?

rb32 said:

You can use parallel-ssh, pdsh, clusterssh or ansible - but why do you want to run 100 VMs on your home server?

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Thanks for your reply mate. Appreciated. Just to clarify things, what you mentioned is the software I can run on windows machines or they are not software? sorry if my question sounds silly but I will never know if I never ask.

The reason I am doing this is that I have too much free time on my hands and until 2 weeks ago I knew nothing about what I can do with VM's and so on. Plus I was thinking if I can control them then maybe the next chance is to try to mask them all and create my own bot teams to do easy jobs.

You have plenty of options, you could use various scripting languages such as Powershell, psexec, .net to start a specific process?
If you plan to then automate activities once that application has been started, then you need to look at more sophisticated automation software such as selenium etc

lewo said:

You have plenty of options, you could use various scripting languages such as Powershell, psexec, .net to start a specific process?
If you plan to then automate activities once that application has been started, then you need to look at more sophisticated automation software such as selenium etc

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Appreciated .. Looks like i have lots and lots of readings to do

You don't need to separate bots into different VMs, or run them in a VM at all. Let's say you are using browser automation, for example, you just need to make sure that they are running as separate processes with separate cookies, and are all configured to go through separate proxies.

rb32 said:

You don't need to separate bots into different VMs, or run them in a VM at all. Let's say you are using browser automation, for example, you just need to make sure that they are running as separate processes with separate cookies, and are all configured to go through separate proxies.

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okay, i somehow got an overview .. in your opinion, is there anything i can read or watch that is similar to what I am looking to create because I have been looking all around and couldn't find anything similar, or maybe I could not explain my idea clearly.