I recently installed VMWare Server 2.0.1 on my brand new Lenovo S10e. I do not use the VMs every day, so I thought it would be a good idea to save some ressources on the computer and do not start the VMWare services automatically when the system starts.

First of all, change all VMWare … services from automatic to manual start.

To make the process of manually starting / stopping of the necessary services comfortable, I created two .cmd files with the following contents.

VM.Start.cmd:

net start “VMWare Server Web Access”
net start “VMWare NAT Service”
net start “VMWare DHCP Service”
net start “VMWare Host Agent”

VM.Stop.cmd:

net stop”VMWare Server Web Access”
net stop”VMWare NAT Service”
net stop”VMWare DHCP Service”
net stop”VMWare Host Agent”
net stop”VMware Authorization Service””

There are 5 services to stop , but you only need to start 4 services. The VMWare Authorization Service is started automatically when the WMWare Host Agent comes up.