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=== Command line options | === Command line options === | ||
You can start the player with command line options so that it starts with a certain feature that you want to use. | You can start the player with command line options so that it starts with a certain feature that you want to use. | ||
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Options: | Options: | ||
--unity | -?, --help : display supported options | ||
-h | -v, --version : display the version of vmware player used | ||
-u <name> | -L, --list-stock-ids : display the list of registered VMs | ||
-p | -X, --fullscreen : Start player with the supplied VM in full screen mode | ||
-U, --unity : Start with unity enabled | |||
-k, --no-kiosk-warning : Start an ACE VM without warning | |||
-K, --no-kiosk-mode : Start a kiosk mode ACE VM outside of kiosk mode | |||
-h <host> : (unsupported) hostname or IP on an remote machine (can be running ESX or VMware Server!) | |||
-u <name> : (unsupported) username to login at the remote host | |||
-p <pass> : (unsupported) password to login with at the remote host | |||
The unsupported -h option works best on the linux vmware player, when using windows you MUST also supply the VM to run. On linux if you do not supply a VM, it will present you with a dialog to select the virtual machine from. When trying to access a VM hosted at a VMware Server host, you have to add the :8333 port to the ip or hostname. | |||
Examples: | Examples: | ||
Connect to a remote ESX/ESXi host using player on IP address 10.10.10.10 and select a windows 2003 VM on the datastore1 storage. | Connect to a remote ESX/ESXi host using player on IP address 10.10.10.10 and select a windows 2003 VM on the datastore1 storage. | ||
vmplayer -h 10.10.10.10 -u "root" -p "password" "[datastore1] W2k3en/W2k3en.vmx" | vmplayer -h 10.10.10.10 -u "root" -p "password" "[datastore1] W2k3en/W2k3en.vmx" | ||
[[Category: ToDo]] | [[Category: CLI]] [[Category: ToDo]] | ||