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Remotely Start a VMware Server

May 6th, 2007 by Josh How To, Open Source, Virtualization1 Comment

There have been a few times now that I needed to start a VMware virtual machine on my server but I wasn't on a PC that had the VMware console installed. Besides, unless I'm on my own network, starting up a server with the VMware console can be a pain due to slower upstream speeds.

Well, I finally took the time to find out how to do this from the command line. It's simple.

Get the current state of the virtual machine. Is it running or not?

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  1. $ vmware-cmd /path/to/vm/machine.vmx getstate

And start it.

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  1. $ vmware-cmd /path/to/vm/machine.vmx start

There are many other things you can do as well. Just man vmware-cmd.

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