https://blog.bekenev.net/tags/vmware.html Software development related stuff en-us Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.bekenev.net/2018/06/09/vmware-run-stop-vm-from-cli.html Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.bekenev.net/2018/06/09/vmware-run-stop-vm-from-cli.html <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>so here are two basic commands you can wrap in functions or anything else to run/stop VM of <strong>VMWare Workstation</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Important note</strong>, all commands are for Windows. They should work for other systems I guess with minimal or no changes.</p> <h2>To start a VM use this command</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>vmrun -T ws start <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;C:\vms\workstation.vmx&#34;</span> nogui </span></span></code></pre></div><p><code>nogui</code> option in this case forces the vmrun NOT to open the GUI window. <code>workstation.vmx</code> is a file, usually is the same as your VM name.</p> <h2>To stop a VM</h2> <p>There is nothing special. Just stop instead of start.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>vmrun -T ws stop <span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;C:\vms\workstation.vmx&#34;</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>You can check out the output of <code>vmrun</code> command to see a bit more options to manage VMs.</p> <p>Also take a look at my <a href="https://blog.bekenev.net/2018/02/18/run-commands-on-guest-vm.html">other</a>, <a href="https://blog.bekenev.net/2018/02/18/virtualbox-headless-mode.html">posts</a> related to pretty the same subject but for VirtualBox.</p>