How to get the OS version from a VM?

[srajsenthil]

Hello, I am using PowerCli to find the vm os summary info. I could successfully get the VM's os name by running the command

Get-VM | Sort | Get-View -Property @("Name", "Config.GuestFullName", "Guest.GuestFullName") | Select -Property Name, @{N="Configured OS";E={$_.Config.GuestFullName}},  @{N="Running OS";E={$_.Guest.GuestFullName}} | Format-Table -AutoSize

It give me the OS name like

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)

and I need the kernel version too like

Linux <HOST-NAME> 2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 24 10:22:33 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there any way to get it through PowerCli or vsphere api? Please let me know.

Thanks,

Senthil

[LucD]

Since the VM has VMware Tools installed, you can use the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet to run a bash script or a command inside the guest OS.

The output of the script/command is returned to your script.

From the expected output it looks as if running 'uname -a' should be the command you will need to run inside the guest OS.

[srajsenthil]

Thanks for the quick reply. We do have a home grown script that do much like invoke-scripts and planning to use that.