The guest OS can be made aware of the shutdown by passing the soft parameter, or the power can be abruptly cut by passing the hard parameter.

The guest OS can be made aware of the restart by passing the soft parameter, or the power can be abruptly cut by passing the hard parameter.

The guest OS can be made aware of the suspend command by passing the soft parameter, allowing it to sleephibernate (if supported).

This also allows scripts to run in VMware Tools, or in the guest OS itself.

These must appear before the command and any command parameters.

CopyFileFromHostToGuest Path to vmx file Copy a file from host OS to guest OS.

CopyFileFromGuestToHost Path to vmx file Copy a file from guest OS to host OS.

Starting a virtual machine with Workstation on a Windows host.

Running a program in a virtual machine with Workstation on a Windows host with Windows guest.

Running a program in a virtual machine with Server on a Linux host with Linux guest.

Creating a snapshot of a virtual machine with Workstation on a Windows host.

Vmrun Clone Options