Changes

In the case of VMware Server 2.0, which introduced the concept of ''datastores'', the name of the datastore in which the virtual machines resides must be provided together with the path of the .vmx file which that store. For example, to reference a virtual machine stored in the ''win2008'' sub-directory of the ''Vol1'' datastore, the vmrun path parameter would be defined as follows (note that the datastore name is enclosed in square brackets and separated from the sub-directory by a space character):

Bringing all of these different command line arguments together, a typical ''vmrun' command to start a virtual machine on a host named ''vmhost'' running VMware Server 2 might appear as follows: