VMware Player (automate/script/Preferences file): This virtual machine may have been moved or copied

[gis4gis]

I am trying to automate the startup of Virtual machine in VMware Player. I am passing in the name of the vmx file as a parameter to vmplayer.exe. It pops up a message regarding "This virtual machine may have been moved or copied". How do I make it automatically choose the option "I copied it". Is there a prefences file option or something else that I can modify so that the VMware Player does not get stuck at this point?

[RDPetruska]

Add a line into the vmx file uuid = "create" (I think. I know the value is "keep" to auto-answer "I moved it").

[akhenax]

putting uuid = "create" in the vmx file does not allow the player to always select "copied" by default. This was doable with early versions of the vmware player but current versions will not allow for this type of easy maintenance.

[continuum]

That still works for me - you just use the wrong vmx-line

see http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-advanced.html#uuid

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