One advantage of using command line is that you can start and stop the VM without logging into the web console. I am using vmware server 2.0. I believe it should work the same for future versions.
To start and stop certain instance, say ares,
vmrun -T server -h ‘https://10.2.115.21:8333/sdk’ -u root -p ‘yourpass’ start “[standard] [...]
sometimes the vmware web access just halted for some reason. A good way to overcome that is to simply restart the vmware web server, ie
/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart
Share and Enjoy:
1. shutdown vmware either from browser or console.
2. checkout the vmware-vdiskmanager command. The example there tells everything.
Share and Enjoy:
It is possible to run machines in vmware instead of xen. Vmware comes in handy when you have an old kernel that doesn’t support para-virtualisation.
vmware server is now web-based starting from ver 2.0. vmware is one of the pioneers when comes to virtualisation. It is meant to be as stable as a rock. I use [...]
