I’ve recently been investigating using virtual machines for testing and deploying environments using the free VMware Server 2.0. Whilst all went remarkably smoothly, one problem that had me stumped for a few hours was working out how to get the guest machines to automatically start when the host was rebooted. Google didn’t provide a solution, but eventually I found this:
Click on the “Host” machine in the inventory tab:
An “Edit Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown Settings” menu item should appear on the right:
You can then move the machines up and down to enable automatic startup… simple! (If you know how)
