Whirlpool

anyone know if its possible, if so, how? - to turn off a suspended VM ?

I currently have a suspended Vista install. Whenever I resume it - VM hangs. Any idea how I can power it off [the vista VM]?

Thank you.

Are you able to run VM Fusion without starting the Vista virtual machine? I have to type a password before it initiates, leaving me with the ability to change settings etc.

Perhaps the best way is to delete the virtual machine (ie, your current install of Vista). May I suggest making a boot camp partition and installing Vista via that medium? I find it is much faster, and once installation is complete, boot back into OS X, then use Vista through VM/parallel. Besides, Vista installs in less than 20 minutes on my MBP via bootcamp.

this is a backup of my old laptop, that i did using vmware convert - so not going to re-install it :)

found if I delete most of the files within the directly, and only leave the HDD, vmx and some other one - it boots freshly :)

you can discard a state/snapshot in the virtual machine menu.

jya writes...

you can discard a state/snapshot

not when its all grayed out :)

see - the vm is actually 'resuming' in which case, it leaves all options gray

RomanT writes...

see - the vm is actually 'resuming' in which case, it leaves all options gray

Try this:
Close VMWare.
Go into your virtual machine directory.
Do a right click on the VMware file, select: show package content
Move the .vmss file to a safe location (just in case)

Just tried it, this is where the state file is stored, if not present it will just boot as usual

Hi,
I have a virtual machine that was created through vmware fusion, and it is stuck during a resume. It says 'restoring state', and the progress bar gets to the end and then stops. I was wonder if you knew how I could restart this vm even though it's presently 'suspended' and can't resume.

Can you not send a cntrl/alt/del from the menu bar?