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Pressing the Option or Alt key has no effect on other power options.
Note You can also configure Fusion to permanently display the hard option or soft option of a
power-option pair. Therefore, you can change Shut Down to Power Off and Restart to Reset.
Later, when you access the Virtual Machine drop-down menu or an applications menu while the
virtual machine is in a powered-on state, Fusion lists the Power Off option instead of the Shut
Down option and the Reset option instead of the Restart option. See Configure Virtual Machine
Power Options.
Procedure
1 Select Virtual Machine to display the Virtual Machine drop-down menu.
2 Hold down the Option key (Mac keyboards) or Alt key (PC keyboards) and select an
alternative power option.
Table 5-2. Power Commands
Soft Option Hard Option
Shut Down Power Off, also called Force Shut Down
Restart Reset, also called as Force Restart
See Options for Fusion Power Commands for descriptions of the power commands.
Options for Fusion Power Commands
You can configure your virtual machine to have soft or hard power options.
The way the Fusion power commands work depends on the way your virtual machine is
configured. If the virtual machine was created in Fusion, the power commands default to soft
options. The commands take effect on the guest operating system. Virtual machines created in
other VMware products might default to hard power options. These commands act on the virtual
machine the way the power and reset buttons work on a physical computer's power supply.
Note You can change the default configuration of some of the power-option pairs from the hard
option to the soft option or reverse after the virtual machine is created. For example, you can
change Shut Down, which is a soft power option, to its hard-option counterpart, Power Off.
n To perform the switch with a keyboard shortcut, see Switch Power Commands from the
Default Options.
n To configure Fusion to make the switch permanently, see Configure Virtual Machine Power
Options.
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