A couple of VMWare questions

I currently run Windows 10 with VMWare v16 with a virtual second Windows 10, located on a separate E: hard drive.

All runs well and I'm happy with it, however it would be nice if I could do a couple of things and wondering if it's possible.

1. A batchfile of sorts which could start VMware with one click and open it in full screen. My virtual machine file I have named 'Windows10v2'

2. Setup a USB drive where I can easily swap files from the virtual machine to the host machine without constant plugging and unplugging drives. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

You will want to take a look at the VMware Workstation Pro User Guide, Chapter 16, starting on page 351. This chapter is only 2 pages long, so it's a really quick read. It directly answers the questions that you have regarding starting VMware and a virtual machine in full screen mode from a command line. You could then simply run that command from a batch file.

As for question #2, see the VMware user guide called "Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines". To be more specific, you will want to refer to the section called "Guest to Host File Operations".

You could place these file operations in a batch file so that you could easily execute those operations when you connect the USB drive.

#2 shouldn't be necessary. You should be able to cut and paste between the two machines. Or at least access a share from one to the other to transfer files.

pparks1 said:

#2 shouldn't be necessary. You should be able to cut and paste between the two machines. Or at least access a share from one to the other to transfer files.

Unless the goal is to do it via command line. But you could accomplish the same thing by creating a share and copying to / from that share by command line.