Reader verifies tip for manual load of VMware Fusion daemons

Monday, March 25, 2013

Enda Farrell of Berlin verified a procedure in for preventing VMware Fusion daemons from running at Mac startup and starting them manually when needed. The tip uses a short shell script that has the daemons stop when Fusion is quit. The original tip put the code in Automator, but Farrell just types it in Terminal:

My Mac's way too busy all the time to have unwanted daemons running and as I don't often use VMware I had removed (by hand) all of the VMware daemons from startup. Then two months later I wanted to use VMware and lo-and-behold nothing works.

Then I found your site. Then I tried:

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --start

open -W /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/boot.sh --stop

It works. Thank you.

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