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Suspending/Resuming Virtual Machine

The state of the running Virtual Machine, and all of its applications, can be saved in order to continue working with the guest OS at a later time. This is called suspending the Virtual Machine. When suspending, the Virtual Machine state is saved to the hard disk in a .sav file. After saving, you may return to the saved Virtual Machine at any time and continue running the guest OS from the point where you stopped.

Suspending a Virtual Machine

To suspend a virtual machine:

  1. During guest OS execution do one of the following:
  2. Progress of saving is displayed in the Please wait while virtual machine is suspending screen. When finished, the virtual machine property page is displayed.

Note. After the virtual machine is suspended, its configuration can not be changed. If you begin editing, despite the warning, the .sav file will be deleted and you will not be able to resume the virtual machine.

Resuming a Suspended Virtual Machine

To resume a suspended virtual machine:

  1. Open the virtual machine configuration in the typical way.
  2. Do one of the following:
  3. Wait until the guest OS state is resumed. Progress is displayed in the Please wait while virtual machine is resuming screen.

After the virtual machine has been resumed, its .sav file is deleted.