The vmrun commands have syntax and other requirements that you must follow.

VMware stores virtual machines as a package that includes the virtual machine settings file, filename.vmx, and the virtual disks.

To prevent the vmrun utility from failing when you provide user input through a dialog box, you can disable dialog boxes.

The vmrun commands are divided into function categories.

The command-line examples that follow work on VMware Fusion. Ubuntu16 is the virtual machine example for Linux and Win10 is the virtual machine example for Windows.