vmrun list
Error: Malformed hostname parameter. For the given service provider, the hostname must be a URL, in the form https://: /sdk
vmrun -h https://localhost:8333/sdk -u adminusername -p adminpassword list
Total running VMs: 1[standard] XPPro/XPPro.vmx
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