There have been a few times now that I needed to start a VMware virtual machine on my server but I wasn't on a PC that had the VMware console installed. Besides, unless I'm on my own network, starting up a server with the VMware console can be a pain due to slower upstream speeds.
Well, I finally took the time to find out how to do this from the command line. It's simple.
Get the current state of the virtual machine. Is it running or not?
CODE:
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$ vmware-cmd /path/to/vm/machine.vmx getstate
And start it.
CODE:
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$ vmware-cmd /path/to/vm/machine.vmx start
There are many other things you can do as well. Just man vmware-cmd.