I don't want to use VM Server, I want to keep my workstation 8 running even I logged off. Thanks for help!
Can you say more in detail? I use win2008 R2 as host machine, installed VM Workstation 8. It seems has nothing to do with vSphere.? Cheers,
Correct, do not use W2K8 as host, but as a guest VMW will not work as service Right tools for the right job! sebu
Using ESXi is another story then. I search around the Internet, there is no perfect answer to run VM Workstation as a service in Win2008 R2. So I wrote a simple windows service program by myself using .net C#. and it is working now. The windows service is simply run a command when start: - Process.Start(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe", @"-T ws start C:\VMs\os.vmx nogui"); and when stop: - Process.Start(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe", @"-T ws stop C:\VMs\os.vmx soft"); workstation 8 keeps running even user logs out. the only problem for now is there is no way to interact with the running VMs (as services), let me try a bit more. Cheers,
Hi, I'm back. After digging out a bit, I found that the VM workstation 8 supports Shared VMs. So move the vm to shared vm. and it will manage by a windows services then. no shutdown when logged out. This is a very goooooooooooooooooood featured! Cheers,