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For all the ease of use provided by VMware Server's graphical tools, perhaps the most powerful tool supplied with various VMware products is a little known command line utility called ''vmrun''. Installed as standard with VMware Server, ''vmrun'' allows almost total control over virtual machines from the command line, either locally on the VMware Server host, or remotely over a network or internet connection. Capabilities of ''vmrun'' include starting, stopping, pausing, resuming and resetting virtual machines, executing commands within guest operating systems and taking snapshots. The primary goal of this chapter is to focus on these and other features of ''vmrun''.