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Backup of VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines
If you are backing up a VMWare Fusion virtual machine, you should snapshot, shutdown, or suspend the machine, before/during the backup. Then once the backup has finished if you have shutdown or suspended the virtual machine you may start the virtual machine. Below are some helpful commands for doing this on Mac OS X with VMware Fusion v2.
Helpful VMware Fusion Commands
- Suspend a Vitrual Machine
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion suspend /Users/smc/Documents/VMWare/Ubuntu.vmwarevm
- Starting the Virtual Machine
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion start /path/to/vmmachine.vmwarevm
- Starting the Virtual Machine
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion start /path/to/vmmachine.vmwarevm
- Create a Snapshot
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion snapshot /path/to/vmmachine.vmwarevm snapshotname
- List Snapshots
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion listSnapshots /path/to/vmmachine.vmwarevm
- Listing Further Commands
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun
- List Running Virtual Machines
- /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun list