Jul 7

nabbed from command line fu with a clarification from blalor. appears that this is only for Fusion,
You can start a virtual machine in vmware without using the gui by using the vmrun command line.

vmrun start /PathTo/virtual_machine.vmx nogui

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  1. blalor Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am

    This applies mainly to VMWare Fusion (on OS X), but you might find some similar power-user tips here: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1201

  2. cw Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    the nogui option may work on VMWare Workstation too. the vmrun command works as-is on Server because doens’t even need a graphical console on the host work anyway. In fact, if you WANT to start a Server guest with a gui from a cli, that would be an interesting trick… especially remotly

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