In order to get around this, you need to configure the Virtual Machine a little bit differently, first, power down the Windows 8 machine, then select Virtual Machine, Settings. Windows 8 supports Hyper-V as long as you are running a 64-bit operating system, however inside of VMWare Fusion, it will allow you to install the base Hyper-V tools, but not the management service and core Hyper-V management service. Recently on a penetration test, we ran into some VHD backups that we needed to get access to, being on the inside network it was fast to transfer 20 gigs off the server, but now we needed a way to use Hyper-V to mount the images so we could get inside the virtual machines. Attaching to existing.By David Kennedy in Penetration Testing, Security Testing & Analysis If ps -o args= $PID | tr ' ' ' ' | grep -qFx ' $VMX 'Įcho ' $1 ' already running. VMX= '/Virtual Machines/ $ ' | while read PID Patches via gist forks are welcome.Įxport PATH= '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion ' If you try this out with your own setup, I'd like to hear how things go. This can be configured in ExitTimeOut in the plist

By default it will wait up to 5 minutes for the VM to shutdown. Use launchctl unload -w $PLIST to initiate a graceful shutdown of the VM.Run launchctl load -w $PLIST to start the VM.Symlink the plist into /Library/LaunchDaemons.For each VM you want to run headless, copy the template property list file and change the filename, label and 2nd program argument to match your VM name.The plist should also be chmod 644 and chown root:wheel. Copy the template plist into /Virtual Machines.Place the vmdaemon script into /Virtual Machines and make it executable ( sudo chmod 755 vmdaemon) and owned by root ( sudo chown root:wheel vmdaemon).Your virtual machines live in /Virtual Machines.I automatically log in for Airfoil Speakers anyway. I had some issues trying to get this running without an interactive user logged in. A interactive user automatically logs into the system at startup.I don't anticipate any issues with later versions. Tested with Mac OS 10.6.2 and VMware Fusion 2.0.5.I heard you like headless VMs on your Mac so I wrote this script for your launchds.

Run VMware Fusion headless at Mac OS system startup.

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