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copy an exe from a guest to a windows vm

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#531 opened on Dec 6, 2018

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i'm trying to copy an exe file from a linux guest box to windows vm. i've used InitiateFileTransferToGuest(vm, cred, file_path,?,True) . how to find the length of an exe and pass it here.

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Use Python's os.path.getsize() to get the file size in bytes, then pass it to InitiateFileTransferToGuest.
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