casintel.blogg.se - Vmware player 10

If you need to interact with the local GUI of the guest OS, suspend the server by running /etc/init.d/vm_server_name stop and then start it locally using the VMware player GUI.

It will definitely slow down shutdown of the host OS, but it is worth it in my opinion. I don't know if that's needed or not, but it seemed like a good idea.

I put a loop in so that on shutdown the script doesn't return to the OS until it has completely suspended the guest OS.

You'll probably need to 'sudo' all the commands as you're modifying root-owned files.

The numbers ensure that it is one of the last things started and the first to be shut down: update-rc.d vm_server_name defaults 99 01

Make the script runnable: chmod a+x /etc/init.d/vm_server_nameĪdd the script to the standard linux service startup/shutdown runlevels. Vmrun -T player suspend "$VM" &>/dev/null If ] thenĭaemon $USER_FLAG - vmrun -T player start "$VM" nogui &>/dev/null &

# Description: Virtual Machine instance of My Server # Required-Stop: $named $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Start: $named $remote_fs $syslog It could look something like this: #! /bin/bash Get the daemon package (usually not installed by default): apt-get install daemonĭownload VMware Player and VMware VIX from and install them to get the VM engine and VIX's vmrun (command-line control of vm execution) binary.Īdd the service to the startup by creating /etc/init.d/. If that's the case, then here's how to configure it: Presumably you'll want it to run under a non-root account and start up and shut down at the standard service startup/shutdown times. If you like that better than VMWare Player, more power to you, but I know VMWare Player and I don't see a reason not to use a well-supported path to get what I want. The other VMware-oriented choice, VMware Server, is deprecated and the only other $0 choice I know of is VirtualBox. It's especially great for hosting a headless server from a headless server. Yes, it's possible to use vmware player as a service for Linux (there's a separate answer for Windows) it's easy and there's no reason I can think of not to do it. I know this is an old question, but I searched all over the internet for a solution to this and I couldn't find anything quite as comprehensive as what I'd like to share.