Executing command on VM inside VMware

Question

Is there any way to execute command on a virtual machine from VMWare server console?

I am able to get the list of VMs by using the command esxcli vm process list . Can I execute command on the VM without doing SSH to VM seperatly?

Answer 1

using vmrun tool: see ref: vmrun command

eg: vmrun -T ws -gu runScriptInGuest Win2k\\Win2k.vmx C:\\perl\\perl.exe C:\\script.pl