How to Start & Stop VMware server/Workstation manually

I love this, that’s for the help. I always hated having the VM services start themselves up and I went and disabled them, but this is really what I wanted and was looking for so I could still use the VM server. Thanks.

Pour faire la même chose sur Ubuntu/Linux :


sudo update-rc.d vmware-server remove


pour désactiver le lancement automatique du service, puis dans un fichier script :


#!/bin/sh
#
gksudo /etc/init.d/vmware-server start
vmware
gksudo /etc/init.d/vmware-server stop


Le service est arrêté automatiquement quand on quitte vmware.

thanks a lot for your help. on my version of windows (xp pro), the service names seem to be for your help, so here is the vmstart.bat that works for me:

net start VMAuthdService
net start VMnetDHCP
net start “VMware NAT Service”
net start vmserverdWin32
net start vmount2
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware.exe”

I use this one to start, in order keep all services stopped:

sc config VMnetDHCP start= demand
net start VMnetDHCP
sc config “VMware NAT Service” start= demand
net start “VMware NAT Service”
sc config vmount2 start= demand
net start vmount2
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware.exe”

And for the stop:

net stop VMnetDHCP
sc config VMnetDHCP start= disabled
net stop “VMware NAT Service”
sc config “VMware NAT Service” start= disabled
net stop vmount2
sc config vmount2 start= disabled

I used the following batch files to start and stop VMWaure Player.

VMPlayer.bat
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@echo off
ECHO Starting VMWare Related Services
@call c:\progra~1\vmware\vmservices.bat start
:player
ECHO Starting VMWare Player
@c:\progra~1\vmware\vmware~1\vmplayer.exe
REM – Are you going to quit VM Player?
c:\progra~1\vmware\CHOICE /N /C:YN /T:N,20 Are you going to quit VM Player?
IF ERRORLEVEL ==2 GOTO player
IF ERRORLEVEL ==1 GOTO exit
:exit
ECHO Stopping VMWare Related Services
@call c:\progra~1\vmware\vmservices.bat stop
————————————————————
VMServices.bat
————————————————————
net %1 “VMware Authorization Service”
net %1 “VMware NAT Service”
net %1 “VMware Virtual Mount Manager Extended”
net %1 “VMware DHCP Service”

I put my start and stop in the quicklaunch bar, which I found more convenient, until I accidentally sopped the server with an aberrant click. I also found that vmware-vmx.exe often lingered after everything else shut down, so here is my shut down script:


@ECHO OFF
set /p userinp=Are you sure you want to kill all vmware server processes? Press 6 to continue or any other key to quit followed by the Enter key . . .
set userinp=%userinp:~0,1%
if "%userinp%"=="6" goto yes
goto no

:End
pause


Thanks! Especially Ted. These are the actual services in my version of VMware server. The solution is simple. I was actually searching for a way to start the virtual machine with a shortcut WITHOUT the console and I also need to know what services need to be started for that. I presume that the web access service is not, the dhcp service and/or nat service only if you need and configured it for the network and the host agent maybe for host-only network? (together with the DHCP service?). VSS I don’t know and the Authorization service is probably always needed. Am I right?

Another remark:

The FIRST service to start should be the authorization service. The second one the host agent.

The LAST service to STOP is the uthorization service. Prior to last the host agent.

If you do not, other services might fail to start or stop.