Sungju's Slow Life

Here are some commands that you can use to manage virtual guests from command line.

To check currently running virtual guests:

$ cd "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library"
$ ./vmrun -T fusion list
Total running VMs: 1
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To start a virtual machine, you can use below.

$ ./vmrun -T fusion start "/Users/sungju/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/mymachine.vmwarevm/mymachine.vmx"

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To stop a virtual machine, you have several choices:
Suspend it

$ ./vmrun -T fusion suspend "/Users/sungju/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/mymachine.vmwarevm/mymachine.vmx"

Shutdown it (soft, hard):

$ ./vmrun -T fusion stop "/Users/sungju/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/mymachine.vmwarevm/mymachine.vmx" soft