Installation guide

CHAPTER 3 Using the VMware Management Interface to Manage Your Virtual Machines
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5. Click Add, then create an option called resume.repeatable and set its
value to TRUE.
6. Click OK to save and close the configuration file.
7. Power on the virtual machine.
8. Using the remote console, take the steps necessary to reach the state in which
you want to suspend the virtual machine.
9. Click Suspend to activate repeatable resume.
10. After you do this, each time you resume the virtual machine, it will resume from
the suspend point you have set. When you click Power Off, the virtual machine
will power off, ready to resume at the suspend point you have set.
If you no longer want to resume the virtual machine using the repeatable resume
point, shut down the virtual machine and manually remove the suspended state
(.std) file from the virtual machine directory. Once it is deleted, you may suspend
the virtual machine in a new state to create a new repeatable resume point;
otherwise, you can set the resume.repeatable flag to FALSE in the
configuration file.
Viewing Information about a Virtual Machine
Important virtual machine information is readily available on the Status Monitor page.
• The link in the Display Name column indicates the display name for the virtual
machine; if one is not specified, then the path to the configuration file for the
virtual machine appears here instead. This column also contains the virtual
machine’s power state and its process ID and virtual machine ID (if it is running);
it also notes if VMware Tools is not installed.
If the virtual machine is waiting for a response to a system message, a “Waiting
for input” link appears here. Click the link to view the message and respond to it.
Click the virtual machine name link for more details about the virtual machine.
The virtual machine’s Status Monitor page appears in a new browser window.
For more information, see Configuring a Virtual Machine on page 106.
• The value in the Up column indicates the length of time the virtual machine has
been running.
• The value in the No. column indicates the number of virtual processors in the
virtual machine.
• The value in the % CPU column indicates the average percentage of host
operating system processor capacity the virtual machine used during the final