Workaround for vmrun under VMWare Workstation 12
Ever since upgrading to VMWare Worksation 12 (12.0.0, 12.0.1 and 12.1.0), I haven't been able to use 'vmrun' to work with my Shared virtual machines. This had been working since (at least WS8) and up to (and including) VMWare Workstation 11.1.2. I used to be able to do this in shared workstation mode: $ /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws-shared -h https://localhost:943/sdk -u user1 listRegisteredVM Total registered VMs: 23 [ha-datacenter/standard] WinVista/winVista.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] RHEL6_x64/RHEL6.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node1/VCS4.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node2/VCS4.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node3/VCS4.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS41_node4/VCS4.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node1/VCS5.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node2/VCS5.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node3/VCS5.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] WinXP/winXPPro.vmx [ha-datacenter/standard] VCS51_node4/VCS5.vmx [....] Now, on VMW 12, I just get this failure: