Unpack the automator scripts into /Library/Automator. Since a couple people have been asking about pause recently, here's some scripts that pause or unpause all running virtual machines that Fusion knows about, as well as how I made them. It's late and it's been a long time since I've looked at this :smileysilly: Message was edited by: etung to fix incorrect statements. Vmrun is in /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/, it's not an optional package. A quick Google search turns up resources like, since it sounds like you're not familiar with Automator, you should probably read up on it. You're getting closer, and that should have not errored out - I just tried it and it works for me. You string together Automator actions using the Automator application to create scripts. Some more specific instructions would be very helpful.Įven more helpful would be a Pause function inside Fusion 2.0.5 or 2.0.6. Okay, now I'm going to look for the vmrun docs to find out where it lives. Is this why the Automator actions are failing? Perhaps it's installed somewhere else in the filesystem (/usr/bin). I looked for vmrun inside the VMware application and couldn't find it: find /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/ -name ' vmrun' -print Perhaps it's an optional package. (5) It then started to look like a great big hassle to use this package, so I thought I'd go for the vmrun command instead.
I tried dragging a single action into a workflow and playing the workflow, but it failed: The action “List Virtual Machines in Library” encountered an error. (4) I then deleted the Automator directory I created, along with the 3 action files in it, started the Automator application and imported these Actions in the top they would install. Do I need to restart Fusion, or take some other action to have these actions show up, after installing them?
#Pdfpen automator action zip#
(I assume they don't need to be under the directory "0" in the ZIP file.) I restarted Fusion and couldn't see any evidence of these actions anywhere. (3) I made an Automator director under /Library and put the three actions there. (2) I had no Automator directory in either ~/Library or root /Library. (1) Where do I look for these commands? I suspect the VMware Fusion menu, under the Services menu item. I've fooled around with this for ten minutes and haven't got it working, so I thought I'd ask for more detailed instructions. To use, unzip and put the resulting actions in /Users/$ /Library/Automator/ or /Libarary/Automator/ For example, one useful combination would be to list all running VMs and pause them, and a matching action to list all running VMs and unpause them - this might be handy if you want to quickly devote computing power to some task but don't want to suspend. Nothing too exciting yet, this is mostly stuff you can trivially do with vmrun (pause/unpause is perhaps particularly interesting, since Fusion doesn't currently have a UI for this).
#Pdfpen automator action update#
I will update this top post if and when I make updates so you don't have to search through the thread. Suggestions for more actions are welcome.
Perform power operation on a list of virtual machines List virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Library I've been toying with Automator recently, and came up with some actions for Fusion.
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