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Sometimes you need to control the guest OS or the virtuals by script. Good example is stopping all the guests or virtuals to take a backup. For VMware server, this is controlled by using Perl script via vmware-cmd.
The pre-requisite is the installation of VMTools. Yes it will work even if vmhgfs and vmxnet are not available.
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Recently I have the chance to create a Fedora 9 virtual machine on VMware server. This is to replaced a crashed server that ran out of disk space. Since it was running off a Compaq ML server. I thought this is an excellent opportunity to remove the hardware element by converting it to a virtual server.
Over all, it was a most interesting experience for a Windows geek. Mundane things that are taken for granted requires lots of typing in the Linux world. In the end it still might not work.
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