How to automatically shut-down VMWare before SD backup?

[Sophie]

Is there a simple way to do this? My VMWare is already configured to save state before quitting. All I want is a way for SuperDuper to ask VMWare to quit (and wait for the quit) before it runs its backup.

Separately, I am getting an "must be unlocked" error when my scheduled SD job tries to run. If I run it manually I have to type in credentials. How do I set up the scheduled job to not require manual intervention?

Thanks!

[dnanian]

Well, you could try to use a before-copy shell script to do it. You'd want to run an Applescript that would send a "quit" event to VMWare. The script would look something like

#!/bin/sh
osascript /path/to/the/applescript

Where the AppleScript was something like:

tell application "VMWare" to quit

[sjk]

Or embed the AppleScript directly in the shell script:

#!/bin/sh

osascript -e 'tell application "VMWare" to quit'

… unless there's some reason why that won't work.

[dnanian]

Nope, that should work as well, but I was replying on my phone and couldn't remember the "-e".