Startup/Shutdown Script for vmWare
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To stop all virtual machines hosted on a Linux Operating System run the following command:
find /var/lib/vmware/ -iname "*.vmx" -exec vmware-cmd {} stop \;
To start all virtual machines run the following command:
find /var/lib/vmware/ -iname "*.vmx" -exec vmware-cmd {} start \;