Friday, July 8, 2022

VMware Fusion - How to power off suspeneded Virtual Machine

 Today I upgraded VMware Fusion and a suspended Virtual Machine would not start.  The recommendation was to change some CPU advanced settings and restart, however, my VM was in a Suspended state and would not start and would not power down in a typical way.

I found this little trick to power down the VM. 

If your VM has been suspended and you can't make the above changes, then you can go to the menu 

-> Virtual Machines -> Hold down the Option (Windows users -> Alt) key and choose "Power Off".

After that, you should be able to make the changes so you can boot your VM again.

NOTE: When I first brought up the menu, "Power Off" was greyed out but sure enough, when you hold the option key (OSX) you are able to select it.  


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