During the automation process, it is helpful to know how a program exited. When that program is called from a command (cmd) or shell (bash) prompt, you can print out the return code using the following commands directly after the command was run and exited: Windows echo %ERRORLEVEL% Linux echo $?

For those of us that test products on Operating Systems, but don’t want to use up our activations granted to us via an MSDN or other matter, there is an undocumented way to extend your Windows Vista install to 120 days without activation. Combine this with VMWare reverts and you are good to test the [...]