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JurgenK
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Shutdown virtual machine via windows host command prompt

Hello everyone,

I have an windows 10 server running an ubuntu 64-bit VM.

I was wondering how to shut the VM down via the host's CMD, i know you can boot the vm via these commands:

cd path-to-vmware_workstation

vmware -x "Path_to_Ubuntu 64-bit.vmx"

I was wondering if that was possible?

Thanks in advance

greetings,

Jurgen Kuyper

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wila
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Immortal

Hi Jurgen,

Use vmrun.

See also:

Vmrun - VI-Toolkit

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JurgenK
Contributor
Contributor

thank you very much Wil,

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Jurgen

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