prlctl-ssh

Parallels Desktop command line utility for open a new SSH connection to a given virtual machine.

If the virtual machine is stopped or suspended the utility will attempt to respawn it before it attemts to SSH into the machine.

Preconditions

1. Paralells tools has to be installed, this is becuase the utility uses the prlctl exec command to find the machine's IP address.
2. The virtual machine must be running SSH server with a working ssh key set up for the user.

Tested with Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS.

Usage

$ ./prlctl-ssh <user>@<vm_id|vm_name>

Make a shortcut cmd

Make a shortcut to your favorite virtual machine by adding an alias to you .bash_profile

$ alias mymachine=./prlctl-ssh user@mymachine