On 01/24/2011 02:43 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry >> Feldman [g...@blu.org] >> >> My question is how does one start a VM directly from the command line. I >> saw some documentation that referenced vmware-cmd, but we don't have >> that installed. > It may be too late for this, but FWIW, for all the ripping I do on VMWare > Server, I still have one system where this is in production. I was able to > look this up today. > > You say you don't have vmware-cmd installed, but it's automatically installed > with your vmware server installation, so unless you went browsing into the > vmware directory after installing and then deleting files in there... It's > there. And it works. It's a perl script, but on windows there's a .bat > wrapper to launch the perl script. > > Here is an example of it working on my windows server: > "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMWare Server\vmware-cmd" > "C:\VirtualMachines\MyGuest1\MyGuest1.vmx" start The vmware-cmd command is not installed on my installation (if I log into the host where the server is installed and do a find /usr/bin /usr/lib/vmware -name vmware-cmd, it does not show up. I've actually done a more extensive find. Also if you look at the VMWare knowledge base, they tel you about the vmrun command: vmrun -u USER -h 'https://vmware.server.com:8333/sdk' -p PASSWORD start "[storage] Path/to/.vmx" This should work, but I get permission denied if I use USER=root with the root password or USER=me with my password (I am set up as an admin on VMWARE server). I have not had the time to really research this.
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