This could be useful to us too, if you can get it to work. We had a slightly different scenerio. We recently had VM crash on us and it took out all of the VM instances. We wound up having to restart the server. We couldn't be entirely sure if it was VM or the OS hiccuping on us, and taking out network connectivity. In our case, the Web GUI console was available locally, but it showed that none of the VM hosts were active. We were unable to start them. Stopping and restarting the VM Daemon didn't seem to help from the console. Plus we were also unable to connect to the host remotely and no ping reply; so we knew that network interface flaked out too.
Regards ________________________________ From: Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 10:48:11 AM Subject: Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line After going to the knowledge base, there is a command, vmrun: vmrun -T server -h https://<host>:8333/sdk -u root -p <root's password> <cmd> "<path to virtualmachine>.vmx" I have not gotten that to run yet. VMWare documentation is inconsistent in that it specifies the port as above, and in other places uses the -P option. On 01/19/2011 03:34 PM, ninurta2005 wrote: > I check with some of the folks I work with for a solution. We have a > instance of VMWare on Ubuntu. He said the following when I asked the > same question as you. > > > "Not that I’m aware of. When a VM is running under linux it will lock > the image in /etc/init.d/ to prevent any data loss and security > concerns. VMware recommends that if need to you should restart the VM > using the web management console. " > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jim Gasek <[email protected]> > *To:* Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wed, January 19, 2011 2:26:21 PM > *Subject:* Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS > (Linux) command line > > What do u mean "The server GUI"? The console on the actual > server itself? The GUI front end from the actual VM server > is very limited. I don't believe you can "break out" > into a "shell". If your server screen "goes dark" (?), the > usual way that you connect to everything is vsphere client, > and all the powerful stuff happens from the client > sending messages to the server. The server isn't > meant to be a console. The console is from elsewhere > over the network. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
