VMware - Driving it from the command-line

I blogged about this a while back: -

Learning to VMRUN

VMware Server 2.0.2 and it's use of datastores

Control VMware Fusion from the Command Line

but I've rediscovered the VMware CLI.

On my Ubuntu box, I'm using VMrun: -

vmrun list

Total running VMs: 3
/home/hayd/vmware/icpboot/icpboot.vmx
/home/hayd/vmware/icpproxy/icpproxy.vmx
/home/hayd/vmware/icpworker/icpworker.vmx

and: -

vmrun suspend /home/hayd/vmware/icpproxy/icpproxy.vmx
vmrun suspend /home/hayd/vmware/icpworker/icpworker.vmx
vmrun suspend /home/hayd/vmware/icpboot/icpboot.vmx

and then on the Mac, I'm doing this: -

vmrun start "/Users/davidhay/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/BPM855.vmwarevm/BPM855.vmx"

and: -

vmrun stop "/Users/davidhay/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/BPM855.vmwarevm/BPM855.vmx"

and: -

vmrun clone "/Users/davidhay/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/BPM855.vmwarevm/BPM855.vmx" "/Users/davidhay/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/BPM86.vmwarevm/BPM86.vmx" full

and: -

vmrun start "/Users/davidhay/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/BPM86.vmwarevm/BPM86.vmx"

which is, as ever, always nice