Vmware

VMWare run/stop VM from command line

Hi everyone,

so here are two basic commands you can wrap in functions or anything else to run/stop VM of VMWare Workstation.

Important note, all commands are for Windows. They should work for other systems I guess with minimal or no changes.

To start a VM use this command

vmrun -T ws start "C:\vms\workstation.vmx" nogui

nogui option in this case forces the vmrun NOT to open the GUI window. workstation.vmx is a file, usually is the same as your VM name.