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I get bored of clicking on vm’s to start/suspend them for my demo environment.  I’ve written a little script that will automate this.  It runs a find on a directory and starts each .vmx in those subdirectories.  You’ll need to edit the VMROOT line to point to the correct directory.  It also launches it headless which the console doesn’t let you.

Usage

chris:scripts chris$ sh vmcontrol start 
2015-05-21T21:07:20.790| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3703 
2015-05-21T21:07:22.059| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3716 
2015-05-21T21:07:23.707| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3723 
2015-05-21T21:07:25.023| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3735 
2015-05-21T21:07:26.717| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3749 
2015-05-21T21:07:29.555| ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 3764 
Success Total running VMs: 6 
chris:scripts chris$ sh vmcontrol suspend 
Success Total running VMs: 0 
chris:scripts chris$ cat vmcontrol | grep VMROOT 
VMROOT='/Users/chris/Documents/Virtual Machines/Tanium Demo Env’


To add it to your bash environment add the directory the script sits in to your path.

chris:~ chris$ cat ~/.bash_profile 
export PATH=${PATH}:/Applications/Work/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/:/Users/chris/scripts