simple vm management script

vm.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$vmFile" ]
  then
    echo "please set your 'vmFile' environment variable to point to your vm's .vmx file"
    exit 1
fi

case "$1" in
  start)
    vmrun start "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  stop)
    vmrun stop "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  suspend)
    vmrun suspend "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  pause)
    vmrun pause "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  unpause)
    vmrun unpause "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  reset)
    vmrun reset "$vmFile" nogui
    ;;
  status)
    vmrun list
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: possible options are: start | stop | suspend | pause | unpause | reset | status"
    exit 1
esac

so I got kind of annoyied by the aliases I did for the vm and I came up witht this.

how to use it:

$ sudo ln -s "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun" /usr/bin/vmrun
$ curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/unlucio/a39f3cda50439b6de59a/raw/3766e3709aee74b1430c4fb089b6c241e584ff20/vm.sh -o vm
$ chmod a+x vm
$ sudo mv vm /usr/bin

and add a vmFile env var to your .zshrc:

export vmFile="/Users/lucio/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Ubuntu 15.04 server64-bit.vmwarevm/Ubuntu 15.04 server64-bit.vmx"

enjoy