Yesterday my boss purchased VIRL for me. I run it on one of my ESXi servers and wanted to be able to maintain the environment I have gotten used to running, namely tabbed terminals in iTerm2. Easier said than done.

I used a couple of blogs to help get me going, but their scripts did not work for me, leading to this post.  I hope it will help others.

These are my settings under the Preferences pane of VM Maestro.

Below is the script that finally worked for me. Please note, the delay 2 is one of the biggest changes I had to make, otherwise the script would put both telnet commands into the same tab.

-- 2016-12-20
-- Jud Bishop

on run argv
	
	-- last argument should be the window title
	set windowtitle to item (the count of argv) of argv as text
	
	-- all but last argument go into CLI parameters
	set cliargs to ""
	repeat with arg in items 1 thru -2 of argv
		set cliargs to cliargs & " " & arg as text
	end repeat
	
	delay 2
	
	tell application "iTerm"
		activate
		set the bounds of the first window to {1000, 500, 1900, 1200}
		if (count of windows) = 0 then
			set t to (create window with default profile)
		else
			set t to current window
		end if
		tell t
			create tab with default profile
			set s to current session
			tell s
				write text cliargs
				set name to windowtitle
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end run