I have multiple virtual machines setup in VMware Fusion.
Some of them are only servers (like Ubuntu), which I want to run without seeing the VMware Fusion icons or windows, a little like VMware Server does.
Does anyone have a solution?
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I have multiple virtual machines setup in VMware Fusion.
Some of them are only servers (like Ubuntu), which I want to run without seeing the VMware Fusion icons or windows, a little like VMware Server does.
Does anyone have a solution?
Best Answer
It appears you can start Fusion headless by executing the following:
You could also add
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library
to your $PATH or create an alias to have easier access to thevmrun
command.You can find more info on the
vmrun
command in this PDF. While a bit out-dated, it should still contain relevant information on how to start and stop your server.If you are interested in running headless Linux servers for your development environment etc, I can also highly recommend to use VirtualBox instead. It is free, has extensive command-line support, and while running headless VMs Fusion loses most if its advantages (seamless GUI integration) over VirtualBox anyway. What's more, tools like Vagrant can even facilitate running these environments to a much greater extent. With the addition of a paid add-on ("provider"), Vagrant can control VMWare as well as VirtualBox for you3.