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Pausing Virtual Machine

When a virtual machine is paused, the guest OS is stopped and the virtual machine process is removed from the CPU processes list. Guest operating system execution can be continued at any time.

Pausing the guest OS is recommended if you want to leave the virtual machine for a short period of time. If you want to leave it for an extended period, and especially if you need to restart your primary OS, it is best to suspend of the VM. See Suspending/Resuming Virtual Machine.

To pause a virtual machine:

When a virtual machine is in pause mode its console is darkened.

To continue running the virtual machine do one of the following: