Stop/Start a Guest OS in Vmware Server 2.0

The VMWare 2.0 has a command named “vmrun” that can control the state of the VMs. The syntax is:

vmrun [AUTHENTICATION-FLAGS] COMMAND [PARAMETERS]

To list all started VM:

[root@host ~]# vmrun -u root -h ‘https://192.168.0.14:8333/sdk’ -p YOURPASSWORD list
Total running VMs: 3
[standard] Apolo/Apolo.vmx
[standard] Ares – NS01/Ares – NS01.vmx
[standard] hades – NS02/hades – NS02.vmx

To stop a VM:

vmrun -u root -h ‘https://192.168.0.14:8333/sdk’ -p YOURPASSWORD stop “[standard] Apolo/Apolo.vmx”

To start a VM:

vmrun -u root -h ‘https://192.168.0.14:8333/sdk’ -p YOURPASSWORD start “[standard] Apolo/Apolo.vmx”

Linux, vmware

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