Running exe files with Hudson on Windows 8

Question

I am attempting to have a Hudson job run a windows executable on a Windows 8 VM. When I attempt to run the exe file I get the error: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\hudson\workspace\workspaceName\installer\bin\fileToExecute.exe": CreateProcess error=740, The requested operation requires elevation

Has anyone run into this and had it run automatically? I can't just have the exe file on the VM and set its permissions because a new copy gets downloaded at the start of each build.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I have not tried this with Windows 8.

First things first, even if you succeed to launch an .exe application from Hudson/Jenkins, it will be running under a different session, probably invisible to you. I've managed to achieve the workarounds for this with PsExec as detailed here:

Open Excel on Jenkins CI

With the above method, you will be able to launch an application and actually see it in the logged in session.

If your application does require elevated permissions for whatever reason, you've got to add -h switch to PsExec