createvm

Several command line parameters allow configuring the virtual machine, which is to be created.

Usage

To create a Windows XP machine with 512MB and audio, USB and CD enabled type: createvm.sh winXPPro -r 512 -a -u -c

Features:

• VM Options:
• Friendly name of the VM
• RAM size in MB
• HDD size in GB
• HDD Interface, SCSI or IDE
• Network Type (bridge/nat/etc)
• Use static mac address
• Enable CDROM Drive
• Enable CDROM Iso
• Enable Floppy Drive
• Enable sound card
• Enable USB
• Path to custom bios file
• Program Options:
• Start the VM with this command
• Path to use as Working Dir
• Create .zip from this VM
• Create .tar.gz from this VM
• Generate a list of VMware Guest OS'es
• Runs without asking questions, accept the default values
• Say YES to all questions. This overwrites existing files!!
• Disable the check on binaries
• Don't use colors
• Help screen
• Shows version information
• Show some examples