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VMware ACE Administrator’s Manual
Using Suspend and Resume
The suspend and resume feature is available to you when you are running a virtual
machine in VMware ACE Manager.
You should not include a suspended virtual machine in a package for distribution to
end users.
The suspend and resume feature is most useful when you want to save the current
state of your virtual machine, then pick up work later with the virtual machine in the
same state it was when you stopped.
Once you resume and do additional work in the virtual machine, there is no way to
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. For details, see Using the Snapshot on page 182.
The speed of the suspend and resume operations depends on how much data has
changed while the virtual machine has been running. In general, the first suspend
operation takes a bit longer than later 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:
1. If your virtual machine is running in full screen mode, return to window mode by
pressing the Ctrl-Alt key combination.
2. Click Suspend on the VMware ACE toolbar.
3. When VMware ACE has completed the suspend operation, it is safe to exit
VMware ACE.
File > Exit
To resume a virtual machine that you have suspended:
1. Start VMware ACE and choose a virtual machine you have suspended.
2. Click Resume on the VMware ACE toolbar.
Note that any 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.
On your end users’ computers, VMware ACE suspends the virtual machine when the
user clicks the exit button on the VMware ACE window or toolbar — the X in the