Control parallels VM via command line and mount remote users home dir as network share with sshfs

vm-management.sh

# Parallels VM management
# start/pause/resume Parallels VM. When starting VM mounts VM users home dir (default) as 
# network share on local machine using fuse4x and sshfs. When pausing VM, unmounts network 
# share before pausing VM.
vmsb() {
    # parallels VM you want to controll, find availble names with "prlctl list -a"
    VM=""
    # connection string for user on $VM ie user@virtualmachine
    CONNECT=""
    # Aboslute path "pwd -P" of a folder your user owns that can be used as the
    # mountpoint for the network share
    MNTPOINT=""
    # Current running status of $VM
    VMSTATUS=`prlctl list $VM -o status --no-header`;

    # if starting vm, start vm then wait then mount network share
    if [ "$1" = "start" ] || [ "$1" = "resume" ]
    then
        case "$VMSTATUS" in
            "running" )
                echo "$VM is already running.";
                ;;
            "stopped" )
                echo "prlctl start $VM";
                prlctl start $VM;
                ;;
            "paused" )
                echo "prlctl resume $VM";
                prlctl resume $VM;
                ;;
            "suspended" )
                echo "prlctl start $VM";
                prlctl resume $VM;
                ;;
        esac
        # mount network share, only if it hasn't already been mounted
        if [ ! -f "$MNTPOINT/.bash_logout" ]
        then
            # give time for vm to boot
            COUNT=0
            while [ $VMSTATUS != "running" ]
            do
                (( COUNT++ ))
                printf "\rWaiting for $VM to finish booting: $COUNT";
                sleep 1;
                VMSTATUS=`prlctl list $VM -o status --no-header`;
            done
            echo -en \\033[0\;32m "\nMounting network share:" \\033[0m"\n";
            echo "sshfs $CONNECT: $MNTPOINT";
            sshfs "$CONNECT": "$MNTPOINT";
        fi
    # if pausing or stopping vm, unmount mounted sshfs mounted network share then pause or stop VM
    elif [ "$1" = "pause" ] || [ "$1" = "stop" ]
    then
        # no need to run pause if machine isn't running
        if [ ! "$VMSTATUS" = "running" ]
        then
            echo  -en \\033[0\;32m "$VM is not currently running, it is currently $VMSTATUS" \\033[0m"\n";
        else
            # only unmount if network share is mounted
            if [ -f "$MNTPOINT/.bash_logout" ]
            then
                echo -en \\033[0\;32m "Unmounting network share:" \\033[0m"\n";
                echo "diskutil unmount $MNTPOINT";
                diskutil unmount "$MNTPOINT";
            fi
            # while for network share to unmount before continuing.
            COUNT=0
            while [ -f "$MNTPOINT/.bash_logout" ]
            do
                echo "$COUNT";
                sleep 1;
                (( COUNT++ ))
            done
            # Never stop as that is like unplugging the VM.
            echo "prlctl pause $VM";
            prlctl pause $VM;
        fi
    else
        echo "prlctl $@ $VM";
        prlctl $@ $VM;
    fi
}

Hey jhuebsch,
I forked your gist and added some help documentation. Not sure how to do a pull request on a gist?
https://gist.github.com/4091028