Auto starting a virtual server in VMware Server 2.0

Thursday, 6 November 2008

I’ve recently been investigating using virtual machines for testing and deploying environments using the free VMware Server 2.0. Whilst all went remarkably smoothly, one problem that had me stumped for a few hours was working out how to get the guest machines to automatically start when the host was rebooted. Google didn’t provide a solution, but eventually I found this:

Click on the “Host” machine in the inventory tab:

Select the Host machine in the inventory tab

An “Edit Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown Settings” menu item should appear on the right:

Select Edit Startup/Shutdown Settings

You can then move the machines up and down to enable automatic startup... simple! (If you know how)

Choose which machines to startup and in which order

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