Saturday, April 3, 2010

Controlling VMware Virtual Machines from the Command Line with vmrun - Virtuatopia

Controlling VMware Virtual Machines from the Command Line with vmrun - Virtuatopia

VMware Communities: vmrun - Error: The specified service ...

i've installed vmware-server 2 on Gentoo 2008.0.

Installed Versions:

vmware-server 2.0.1.156745-r3

vmware-modules 1.0.0.24


vmware-vix 1.6.2.156745-r2


Everything works fine from a remote machine, but if i want to start up a VM from console via vmrun, i get this error message:


Error: The specified service provider was not found


Any suggestions how i can fix this problem?


VMware Communities: vmrun - Error: The specified service ...: "The problems seem to stem from the fact that you don't have the 'vix.libdir' setting in your global configuration file. Usually this is set in /etc/vmware/config by having a line like:
vix.libdir = '/opt/vmware/vix/lib'

If you add this, vmrun should start working."