How do I start a vmware guest from start

Posted 04/27/2009 - 09:02 by David Schnardthorst

Problem:

A required Guest OS is down and no GUI is present to restart the VMware Guest. A Command Line Option is required.

Solution:

To start a vmware guest OS, run these commands from the VMWare Server.

vmware-cmd <path-to-.vmx file> start

If the command is successful you should receive the following response

start() = 1

If the Guest OS does not start you may need to check the state with the following command:

vmware-cmd <path-to-.vmx file> getstate