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How to suspend and resume a virtual machine from the command line in Vmware 7 Workstation on XP Pro?

I need to be able to suspend a VM, do a backup and restart the VM on an XP Pro box using Vmware Workstation 7 from the command line.

Anybody done this?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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To be clear, here are the two commands that I used exactly as I used them.

To SUSPEND Vmware Workstation's running virtual machine on Windows XP Pro...

vmrun -T ws suspend "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx"

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To RESTART the same vm after my backup ran on Windows XP Pro...

vmrun -T ws start "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx"

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NVIT

I'm confused... The OP didn't mention doing the suggested snapshot in his post of the steps he took.

1. What is the purpose of the snapshot step https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27025853/How-to-suspend-and-resume-a-virtual-machine-from-the-command-line-in-Vmware-7-Workstation-on-XP-Pro.html?anchorAnswerId=35719102#a35719102 above?

2. Do you do both the SUSPEND command before that and then the SNAPSHOT command?