ssh guest from host when VMware player is closed

[sksandeep]

Hi Team,

I am using VMware-player-3.1.1-282343 on my Host machine -Microsoft windows XP.

My guest OS is FreeBSD 7.1 which iam running using VMware Player.

I am able to ssh virtual machine from host when the guest OS is running within VMware player.Is this possible if i close VMware player ??

In other way , can i ssh guest OS from host when VMware player is exited.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Sandeep

[WoodyZ]

You can use vmrun to start a VM without the GUI and then ssh into it.

Have a look at: <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix110_vmrun_command.pdf" class="openpdf" target="_blank">Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines</a>

Syntax Example:

vmrun -T player start <path to .vmx file> nogui

[sksandeep]

Hi ,

vmrun utility was not installed by default therefore i installed VMware-vix-1.10.1-266898.

and gave the command >> vmrun -T start Error: The specified version was not found

Are u aware of this error ??

Thanks

Sandeep

[WoodyZ · Accepted solution]

You are not formatting the command line correctly, so look at the syntax example I gave and read the documentation.

[sksandeep]

Basicaly there was a version difference between VMware player and VIX .I have taken the right pair from VMware site and now its working fine.

Thanks a lot.

Sandeep