• List running virtual machines
• List virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Library
• Perform power operation on a list of virtual machines
  • Power On
  • Shut Down (soft)
  • Power Off (hard)
  • Reboot (soft)
  • Reset (hard)
  • Suspend
  • Pause
  • Unpause

Never seen these - what do they do? "non-persistent" suspend, i.e. just stop giving CPU time to the machine? Where are they in Fusion menubar?

Could we have "list running processes in VM" or "Grab screenshot of VM". For example I run my VMs in Spaces and would love an Automator action that perhaps runs a script in a VM (Windows) and watches to see when its done, or takes a screenshot every so often and shows it to me as the screen is hidden in another space.

This is the thing I have always needed but never realized I wanted. Thanks!

I figured it might be a good idea to have a domain a while back, and that was the best I could come up with in 5 minutes. As you can tell, I never got around to doing anything with it (maybe someday...), but since Apple requires developers to use a unique domain for preferences and I already had that one, I just used it.

I haven't used Automator Actions before.
I've fooled around with this for ten minutes and haven't got it working, so I thought I'd ask for more detailed instructions.

(1) Where do I look for these commands? I suspect the VMware Fusion menu, under the Services menu item.

(2) I had no Automator directory in either ~/Library or root /Library. Is this normal?

(3) I made an Automator director under /Library and put the three actions there. (I assume they don't need to be under the directory "0" in the ZIP file.) I restarted Fusion and couldn't see any evidence of these actions anywhere. Do I need to restart Fusion, or take some other action to have these actions show up, after installing them?

(4) I then deleted the Automator directory I created, along with the 3 action files in it, started the Automator application and imported these Actions in the top they would install. I tried dragging a single action into a workflow and playing the workflow, but it failed: The action “List Virtual Machines in Library” encountered an error.

(5) It then started to look like a great big hassle to use this package, so I thought I'd go for the vmrun command instead. I looked for vmrun inside the VMware application and couldn't find it: find /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/ -name '*vmrun*' -print Perhaps it's an optional package. Perhaps it's installed somewhere else in the filesystem (/usr/bin). Is this why the Automator actions are failing?

Okay, now I'm going to look for the vmrun docs to find out where it lives...

Some more specific instructions would be very helpful.

Even more helpful would be a Pause function inside Fusion 2.0.5 or 2.0.6.

Just to prove my novice status with unix, I can't get vmrun to run from the command line. Even though I'm in the /Library/Application Support/Vmware fusion directory, when I type vmrun enter the message "command not found" appears. I can run vmrun from finder, and run ls etc. from the command prompt...what am I missing?