Hi Folks. I've set up my PC with Ubuntu-Mate 18.04.2 & have a windows guest already in use. When I start the VMWare app it is there & runs fine, no problems at all. What I seek is the way to make a desktop launcher that will start the app with the VMX file already open. I tried just making & using a link to the VMX file itself, but it didn't work. I've also searched as much as I could think of, but the searches seem to be too general & return unrelated results for me. Does anyone here know how this might be accomplished, please ?? Thanks for any helpful replies !!
Wow. I thought that if anyone, anyplace would know the answer to this, it would be someone here... Perhaps it is an unanswerable question ?!?
Do a plain '$ VBoxManage' , there is no 'man page'. Seriously, tons of options. Use '$ VBoxManage list vms' to list your VMs name and guid. Example output... "Debian" {9bae2eed-7026-448e-965b-b577774c0a5d} "Netrunner" {1cb73924-bff9-44ce-a8a7-c9829dd01884} Use '$ VBoxManage startvm "Debian" ' to start the VM. You can use the name or the guid, I've created a desktop shortcut/launcher using the line above in the Command field and it works for me. I use the extra option '--type headless' to start my server VM. Maybe, not what you're looking for....
Fallen999 - thanks for your thoughtful reply. I'm using VMWare, and: Which I do not use. It'd be great if VMWare had a similar thing to use for it !!