IT/Tech: How-to start and stop VMWare Workstation 10

If you are working with Azure, latest the moment you are starting to run the service locally you will realize that it does conflict with a locally installed VMWare Workstation or VMWare Player. The following script has been tested with VMWare Workstation 10.x and should serve you 

• as local script for your convenience or
• as starting point for your own version of a start/stop script.

Step-by-step guide

1. The Script
   VMWare.cmd

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   @echo off :BatchStart setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion title C6?! VMware START / STOP echo. echo %date%-%time% echo C6?! VMware START / STOP echo. echo. if /i "%1" == "" (     echo Commands expected START or STOP     echo.           goto EndBatch ) else (     echo VMware starts with command "%1"     echo. ) :GoOn if /i "%1" == "stop" (     echo.     echo Stopping VMware...     echo.     net stop VMwareHostd     net stop VMAuthdService     net stop VMnetDHCP     net stop "VMware NAT Service"     net stop VMUSBArbService    ) else if /i "%1" == "start" (     net start VMAuthdService     net start VMnetDHCP     net start "VMware NAT Service"     net start VMUSBArbService     net start VMwareHostd ) :EndBatch echo ErrorLevel: %errorlevel%

2. Simply store it as VMWare.cmd and run it with (local) Administrator priviliges, calling is VMWare start to start the Workstation or VMWare stop to stop it.

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You need to run the script with (local) Administrator priviliges or your current user need to have the right to start/stop services.

Related articles

* The following article was used as a base to this article here: http://picobit.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/vmware-workstation-65-stop-services/