VMware Fusion® (for Mac) : HOWTO: Run a Virtual Machine at Boot : Comments

RE: HOWTO: Run a Virtual Machine at Boot

ann2x168 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:01:14 GMT

i have just recently bought a 13 inch macbook. so far it's running great. the only drawback is that i need ot run quickbooks enterprise solution edition 5.0. it's a windows only software. right now i'm using bootcamp to access it which at times can be such a hassle. i have been reading good reviews with the vmware fusion 2.0, my only inquiry is that is it compatible with the version of quickbooks that i'm using? any help or comments would be great. i am not a very savvy mac user

RE: HOWTO: Run a Virtual Machine at Boot

blurk — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:09:44 GMT

Very helpful document, thanks.

It may need some updating for Fusion V2. As you point out in the text, vmrun is the more appropriate method for starting VMs. I couldn't get vmware-vmx working at all, but did have success with vmrun. Also, the paths appear to have changed in V2 (or at least in my install); I only needed /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmrun and not the extra vmx/Contents/MacOS/ in the path. This may confuse some readers.

RE: HOWTO: Run a Virtual Machine at Boot

Chimgan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:44:49 GMT

Thanks for this Howto!

That's my code using kextstat to wait for VMWare extensions in 'Run Once'

while [ 4 -gt `kextstat -k -l | grep -c "vmware.kext."` ]; do
echo "Waiting for VMWare Fusion kexts..."
sleep 1
done