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kaengo
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How to send ctrl-alt-del to windows host at shell

Hello,

I run Win 7 as a guest on vmware workstation on centos 7

Sometimes, my mouse is making trouble.

Pointer is moving, but no chance to make a click ....

Keyboard is working, I am able to open a shell and i.e. to run vmrun list.

Is there a way to shutdown my guest system regularly?

(To send ctrl-alt-del to it?)

Greetings, Holger

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wila
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Hi,

If VMware Tools is installed in the guest you can ask it to shut down via vmrun.

eg:

vmrun -T ws stop "/home/user/my VMs/myVM.vmx"

more details:

Vmrun - VI-Toolkit

if VMware tools is not installed (or running) then the above command will still shut down your VM, but it will do so as a hard power down, without letting the guest OS know.

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Wil

| Author of Vimalin. The virtual machine Backup app for VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and Player |
| More info at vimalin.com | Twitter @wilva

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wila
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Hi,

If VMware Tools is installed in the guest you can ask it to shut down via vmrun.

eg:

vmrun -T ws stop "/home/user/my VMs/myVM.vmx"

more details:

Vmrun - VI-Toolkit

if VMware tools is not installed (or running) then the above command will still shut down your VM, but it will do so as a hard power down, without letting the guest OS know.

--

Wil

| Author of Vimalin. The virtual machine Backup app for VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and Player |
| More info at vimalin.com | Twitter @wilva
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sjesse
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control alt insert work as well, I think workstation altered the keycodes in the console if you processed those, so it doesn't matter what os or form its in.

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kaengo
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Thank you, I used it once ago...

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