VMware Fusion Command Line Virtual Machine Operations

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  1. !/bin/bash

"/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun" start "/Users/ovidiu/VMware Fusion VMs/centos-docker-server.vmwarevm/centos-docker-server.vmx" nogui <syntaxhighlight>

Conventionally, a <vm-name>-start is placed in "/Users/ovidiu/VMware Fusion VMs" or the directory that contains the profile.

Stop

"/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun"  \
  stop \
  "/Users/ovidiu/VMware Fusion VMs/OpenShift/OpenShift 3.5 Minimal/node2.openshift35min.local.vmwarevm/OpenShift node template.vmx"