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Suspending a Virtual Machine

You can save the current state of your virtual machine by suspending it. Then 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 same state as 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 Ctrl-Alt.
2. Click Suspend on the VMware GSX Server console toolbar. The virtual machine is placed in a suspended state.

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.

Options for Suspending a Virtual Machine

You can choose from the following options when suspending a virtual machine. Make your selection from the Power menu.

• Run Script Then Suspend — executes the associated script, then suspends the virtual machine. This is the same as clicking Suspend on the toolbar, unless a script is not associated with suspending a virtual machine.
• Suspend Virtual Machine — suspends the virtual machine.

Related topics:

• Starting and stopping a virtual machine
• Resuming a virtual machine
• Resuming virtual machines repeatedly from the same point
• Executing scripts when the virtual machine’s power state changes

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