Specifications

VMware, Inc. 173
Chapter 11 Managing Virtual Machines
Using Suspend and Resume
Thesuspendandresumefeatureismostusefulwhenyouwanttosavethecurrentstate
ofyourvirtualmachineandpickupworklaterwiththevirtualmachineinthesame
state.
Afteryouresumeanddoadditionalworkinthevirtualmachine,youcannotreturnto
thestatethe
virtualmachinewasinatthetimeyoususpended.Topreservethestateof
thevirtualmachinesoyoucanreturntothesamestaterepeatedly,takeasnapshot.See
“UsingSnapshots”onpage 249formoreinformation.
Thespeedofthesuspendandresumeoperationsdependsonhowmuchdatachanged

whilethevirtualmachinewasrunning.Ingeneral,thefirstsuspendoperationtakesa
bitlongerthansubsequentsuspendoperationsdo.
Whenyoususpendavirtualmachine,afilewitha.vmssextensioniscreated.Thisfile
containstheentirestateofthevirtualmachine.Whenyouresumethevirtualmachine,

itsstateisrestoredfromthe.vmssfile.
To suspend a virtual machine
1Ifyourvirtualmachineisrunninginfullscreenmode,returntowindowmodeby
pressingtheCtrl‐Altkeycombination.
2ClickSuspendontheVMwareInfrastructureClienttoolbar.
WhenVMwareInfrastructureClientcompletesthesuspendoperation,itissafeto
exitVMware
InfrastructureClient.
3 ChooseFile>Exit.
To resume a virtual machine that you have suspended
1StartVMwareInfrastructureClient,andselectavirtualmachinethatyouhave
suspended.
2ClickthePowerOnbuttonontheVMwareInfrastructureClienttoolbar,orchoose
thePowerOnoptionfromthepop‐upmenuortheCommandswindow.
N
OTEApplicationsyouwererunningatthetimeyoususpendedthevirtual
machinearerunning,andthecontentisthesameasitwaswhenyoususpended
thevirtualmachine.