Update: Start and stop VMware Workstation services on your laptop – menu driven.

A while ago, I wrote a blog post about starting and stopping the VMware Workstation services on your laptop. Yesterday, VMware Workstation 8 has been released and there are some changes in the services that this application uses. After the installation I have noticed that the VMware Agent Service and the VMware DHCP Service are now gone. They have been replaced by the VMware Workstation Server service. This leads to an update of my “ Start & Stop VMware Workstation.bat” file. So, here we go 🙂

@echo off
echo Start/Stop VMware Workstation services
echo.
echo 1. Start
echo 2. Stop
echo.
choice /c:12

If errorlevel 1 if not errorlevel 2 goto start
If errorlevel 2 if not errorlevel 3 goto stop

:start
echo.
net start "VMware Workstation Server"
net start "VMware NAT Service"
goto end

:stop
echo.
net stop "VMware Workstation Server"
net stop "VMware Authorization Service"
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
net stop "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
goto end

:end

Copy and paste the code above to a batch file. Place it on your desktop for easy access. Don’t forget to set the start-up type to Manual of the VMware Workstation services mentioned above through services.msc in your Windows system.

Cheers!

– Marek.Z