Controlling VMware Virtual Machines from the Command Line with vmrun
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For all the ease of use provided by VMware Server's graphical tools, perhaps the most powerful tool supplied with various VMware products is a little known command line utility called vmrun. Installed as standard with VMware Server, vmrun allows almost total control over virtual machines from the command line, either locally on the VMware Server host, or remotely over a network or internet connection.
This chapter will focus on the various features of vmrun.
vmrun -T server -h https://vmhost:8333/sdk -u root -p mypassword stop "[Vol1] win2008-1/win2008-1.vmx"
