When launching Workstation manually, is it necessary to load half a dozen services?

[thewul]

I am launching Workstation manually.

Wonder all the processes are required to run in the background when Workstation is  not running.

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VMware Authorization Service (32 bit)

VMware NAT Service (32 bit)

VMware Tray Process (32 bit)

VMware USB Arbitration Service

VMware VMnet DHCP service (32 bit)

vmware-hostd.exe (32 bit)

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Windows 10Pro x64.

Thanks

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[continuum]

No - off course not.
Feel free to create a batch that starts only those services that you really need before you actually start vmware.exe

[thewul]

Thanks for the feedback. Very sorry for the delay. I haven't received a notification of a reply and was away for a few days.

That said, being just an end-user: any suggestions as to how I shd proceed to have all these things  nót   loaded at startup, but loaded only when Workstation is manually launched from my desktop?

Similar to, say, launching Outlook, or Word.

Am encountering issues with my AV program. After lengthy(!) testing, checking, trying and so and eventually restoring an Windows image that did nót contain vmware workstation, the AV program is running fine. So I suspect vmware to be the cause.

The AV program runs fine in 2 (windows 10 x64-vm's), but at the same time not on the Windows 10 x64 host.

As said, the AV program runs fine when Workstation (v12.01) is not installed.

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[continuum]

Set those services you dont want to run all the time to startup-type manual
Then create a textfile with this content:_

net start VMAuthdService

net start vmci

net start VMnetAdapter

net start VMnetBridge

net start VMnetDHCP

net start VMnetuserif

net start VMparport

net start vmusb

net start VMUSBArbService

net start "VMware NAT Service"

net start VMwareHostd
Store the file as vm-services-start.cmd - and execute the cmd as administrator.

[thewul]

Hi Continuum,

Many thanks indeed!

When installed services are started automatically, so they are running in the background all the time.

Is there no way to have a desktop icon that:

1.starts the services

2. launch vmware

3. stops them when closing vmware

I don't know... I am not an expert at all, so the below may very well childishly ridiculous..

something like

rem    run as administrator

LaunchVMwareWS.cmd

rem   start services

net start VMware Authorization Service

net start VMware NAT Service

net start VMware Tray Process

net start VMware USB Arbitration Service

net start VMware VMnet DHCP service

net start vmware-hostd.exe

rem    start vmware.exe

d:\vmware\vmware.exe

rem    after closing vmware

rem    stop services

net stop VMware Authorization Service

net stop VMware NAT Service

net stop VMware Tray Process

net stop VMware USB Arbitration Service

net stop VMware VMnet DHCP service

net stop vmware-hostd.exe

currently I don't have vmware installed, it blocks my security software.

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[continuum]

Creating a shortcut to a batch and assigning the WS-icon to the shortcut is no problem at all.
For the stop button you need a second batch with net stop commands.

[thewul]

Thank you again.

I'll definitely give this a try one of these days.

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