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Guest Virtual Machines
It may be difficult to identify guest VMs if you only have access to the console and not the ESXi web interface.
vmdumper is able to quickly provide information about virtual machines which are present on the host and currently running
vm-support can list all configured VMs, regardless of powered state
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[root@localhost:~] vmdumper -l
wid=528305 pid=-1 cfgFile="/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host3/host3.vmx" uuid="{UUID-hex}" displayName="host3" vmxCartelID=528303
wid=528307 pid=-1 cfgFile="/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host1/host1.vmx" uuid="{UUID-hex}" displayName="host1" vmxCartelID=528304
wid=528308 pid=-1 cfgFile="/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host2/host2.vmx" uuid="{UUID-hex}" displayName="host2" vmxCartelID=528302
[root@localhost:~] vm-support --listvms
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/Kali/Kali.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/Windows10_1/Windows10_1.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/pfSense_gateway/pfSense_gateway.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/Windows_Flare/Windows_Flare.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/REMNUX/REMNUX.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/DC01/DC01.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/OpenCTI/OpenCTI.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/50cent/50cent.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/dht-tracker/dht-tracker.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/ubuntu-template/ubuntu-template.vmx (Registered)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host1/host1.vmx (Running)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host2/host2.vmx (Running)
/vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host3/host3.vmx (Running)
For specific information about a guest VM (or cat the same vmx file)
[root@localhost:~] vm-support -v /vmfs/volumes/{volume-UUID}/host1/host1.vmx
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