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.

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.

To suspend and resume a virtual machine from the VMware Management Interface, see Changing a Virtual Machine's Power State from the Management Interface.