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Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines
You can save the current state of your virtual machine by suspending it. Later, you can
resume the virtual machine to pick up work quickly, right where you stopped — with
all documents you were working on open and all applications in the state they were
at the time you suspended the virtual machine.
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 console toolbar.
To resume a virtual machine that you have suspended:
1. Start the VMware Virtual Machine Console and choose a virtual machine you
have suspended. The process is the same as that described in Connecting to
Virtual Machines and GSX Server Hosts on page 106.
2. Click Resume on the console 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.
For more information, see Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines on page 150.
To suspend and resume a virtual machine from the VMware Management Interface,
see Changing a Virtual Machine’s Power State from the Management Interface on
page 120.
Shutting Down a Virtual Machine
As with physical computers, you need to shut down your guest operating system
before you power off your virtual machine. Follow the standard steps you also follow
in the host operating system.
For example, in a Windows guest operating system, take these steps.
1. Select Shut Down from the Start menu of the guest operating system (inside
the virtual machine).
2. Select Shut Down, then click OK.
3. After the guest operating system shuts down, you can turn off the virtual
machine. Click Power Off.