I installed Fusion 2 in a Snow Leopard box. It works fine but now I would like to be able to have aVM start/suspend when the computer starts up or shuts down/reboots. At first I tried what was suggested in and that seemed to be enough to just start the vm up. But, how about suspending it? Next attempt was to go to /Library/StartupItems and create a startup entry for the VM (called VMtest). Could anyone give me some pointers?Here is the script I wrote to start/suspend the vm:
#!/bin/sh
#
/Library/StartupItems/VMtest/VMtest
#
Suppress the annoying "$1: unbound variable" error when no option
was given
if ; then
echo "Usage: $0 start "
exit 1
fi
Source the common setup functions for startup scripts
test -r /etc/rc.common || exit 1
. /etc/rc.common
SCRIPT="/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmrun"
VMACHINE="/Users/mainstreetsoftworks/vms/VMtest/vmtest.vmx"
StartService ()
{
ConsoleMessage "Starting VMtest"
while http:// ! -e /var/run/vmnet-bridge-vmnet0.pid ; do
sleep 1
done
$SCRIPT start $VMACHINE > /dev/null 2>&1
}
StopService ()
{
ConsoleMessage "Stopping (Ok, pausing) VMtest"
$SCRIPT suspend $VMACHINE > /dev/null 2>&1
}
RestartService ()
{
ConsoleMessage "TBA"
$SCRIPT restart > /dev/null 2>&1
}
if test -x $SCRIPT ; then
RunService "$1"
else
ConsoleMessage "Could not find VMware!"
fi
And here is so far what I have in StartupParameters.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Description</key>
<string>VMtest</string>
<key>OrderPreference</key>
<string>Last</string>
<key>Provides</key>
<array>
<string>VMtest</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Could anyone show me what I am missing?
