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Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

Spackmeier — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:25:07 GMT

This work fine, I use this commmand line for 1 month whitout problem!

this for start

vmrun -T server -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u vmware_user -p vmwarepassowrd start "standard folder/winNetStandard.vmx"

and this for stop

vmrun -T server -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u vmware_user -p vmwarepassword stop "standard folder/winNetStandard.vmx" soft

thanks for help

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

wila — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:39:08 GMT

You're most welcome. The help icon links to here: http://communities.vmware.com/markuphelpfull.jspa
I completely understand you are overlooking it as someone else had to point it out to me as well it is in the plain text tab of the editor, not in the "rich text" view.
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Wil

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

guyrleech — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:20:28 GMT

or maybe not the second time!

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

guyrleech — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:11:30 GMT

[Thanks]. Still can't find any help in the editor but at least I know how to make my posts very pretty now.

Trying square brackets around "Thanks" - looks ok in the preview but go wonky in the post.

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

wila — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:34:52 GMT

guyrleech wrote:
....snipped.... relative to its datastore such as "[standard] folder/vm.vmx"

Ignore the funny icon above between the opening square bracket and "standard" - this forum editor puts it in and I don't know how to stop it!

Heheh, there's a help icon in the editor.. I suggest to click on it and check the help documentation
In addition you might want to take a look at my forum wiki documentation here: Undocumented wiki markup tricks
Hope this helps,

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Wil

edit: instead of just pointing you to the documentation I should also have told you that you can use things like { noformat } (without the extra space characters and { code } (again without the extra spaces.

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

cgf57 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:35:37 GMT

why next time? who knows when?

Anyway you should have do like this

to stop:
VMrun -T server -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd stop "{standard} nameserver/namefile.vmx" soft

to start:
VMrun -T server -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd start "{standard} nameserver/namefile.vmx" gui

PLEASE, REPLACE ALL { and } WITH square bracket

(It works also on Linux)

p.s. the manual might be not clear (otherwise it should be not a manual), running VMrun without any parameter, you got the examples and there...
you were nearly right, you had just missed to put <list> corectly, of course in case someone has got a different datastore name, this has to be written instead of <standard>.

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

Spackmeier — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:12:26 GMT

Hi, thanks for response!

I see now your message and this morning I find the correct string to do the command with my friend.

Next time I post a correst string for the other user...I think that tha manual is not clear...

Thanks a lot!

Goodnight

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

guyrleech — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:55:28 GMT

A couple of observations:

1) Why are you using "-T ipserver"? This should be "-T server"

2) I don't use vmrun on Windows but I do on Linux and you have to specify the vmx relative to its datastore such as "[standard] folder/vm.vmx"

Ignore the funny icon above between the opening square bracket and "standard" - this forum editor puts it in and I don't know how to stop it!

Re: start and stop virtual machine on command line...

Spackmeier — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:00:54 GMT

I try also

vmrun stop "d:\folder\virtualmachinename\virtualmachinefile.vmx" but doesn't work...respond me that is incorret...it want "http:......."

I think that this command is use in Workstation version.

I download the manual "using vmrun to control virtual machines" for Workstation and server 2.0 but I understand how stop and start...the example in this manual is not clear

Now I install a Xp virtual machine for test and I have new idea to try...

vmrun.exe -T ipserver -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd stop https://ipvirtualmachine:8333/sdk/namesarver/filr.vmx

Have other idea?

Thanks!

p.s.: sorry for my english...

start and stop virtual machine on command line...

Spackmeier — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:13:51 GMT

Hi, I have VMware ServerVersion 2.0.0Build 116503 on a 2003 server R2

I have a virtual machine online and I have install the VMware VIX

Now I want to backup my virtual machine with a simple xcopy of my folder, but for do this I must power off the virtual machine.

I see that on the old GSX, the command vmware-cmd D:\VirtualMachines\VMXP02\winXPPro.vmx start work but in the vmware server 2 I can't use the vmrun command line....

I arrive to this step:

vmrun.exe -T ipserver -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd list

With this I have:

totale running VMs: 1

standar nameserver/namefiel.vmx

Now I try the command

vmrun.exe -T ipserver -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd stop \[ipserver\folrder\namevirtualmachinefolder\file.vmx|file://ipserver/folrder/namevirtualmachinefolder/fil.vmx]

vmrun.exe -T ipserver -h https://ipserver:8333/sdk -u adminuser -p adminpwd stop https://10.10.1.4:8333/sdk/namesarver/filr.vmx

and oder try....

I need help....thanks!