Comments on: Start and stop VMWARE VPS / virtual machine guest operating system from command line

By: anand mb

anand mb — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:56:24 +0000

gud one.. any dumbo can understand.. keep sharing the knowlege & god bless.

Anand MB
Bengaluru

By: David

David — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:08 +0000

HI!
how can I restart a machine on vmware remotely?
I mean I have a few vpss on Vmware in my server, now I’d like to restart it remotely from my pc.
thanks:x

By: Shivaji

Shivaji — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:03:43 +0000

Hi Vivek,
Thanks. This information helped me.

By: rmccurdy

rmccurdy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:09:30 +0000

batch file startup

for /f “delims=” %%i IN (‘dir/s/b c:\rootwars\*.vmx’) do (
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-cmd” -v “%%i” start
)

By: Emil

Emil — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:56:51 +0000

Hi,
I’m running VMWare on a Fedora Server, and I would like to start/stop the virtual machines withouth VNC-ing to the server, from a terminal window. The thing is that I can’t find vmware-cmd anywhere. Where can I find that?

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:17:45 +0000

vmware-cmd -?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:57:48 +0000

Thank you!

A friends server went down due to power failure and this info helped me solve the problem.

Where can i get a complete list of such commands?

oh and by the way, you still need to change the -1 to -l (L) because had he not have seen the error we would not have been able to use the info here. Also, please let people know that the information after # vmware-cmd /this/blah/blah is the path and will be different for all users

Cheers and thanks again

Jay

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:32:03 +0000

Try
/etc/init.d/vmware start

Did you upgraded kernel? If so you need to reconfigure vmware
vmware-config.pl -d

By: Mark Hentov

Mark Hentov — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:03:32 +0000

Hmm. After a reboot vmware seems not to be running. I can’t connect or start any virtual machines.
What daemons need to be enabled with chkconfig? What modules need to load?

By: Husain

Husain — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:14:26 +0000

I have installed VMWare Server 1.0.4 on RHEL5.1 64 bit version. When I try to power on a virtual machine the OS panics. I am not a linux expert so I have no idea as to how to deal with this issue. I do not have physical access to the server and remotely I was able to take a screenshot of the panic screen. The last line read “Kernel Panic – not syncing: Fatal exception”.

Your help would be highly appreciated.

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:08:38 +0000

Sir Geek,

Thanks for the heads up… post has been updated

By: Sir Geek

Sir Geek — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:04:07 +0000

One minor problem with your 1st command to list the VMs. The command should be vmware-cmd -l