You can start up, shut down, suspend, pause, resume, restart, and reset your virtual machines. You can send power commands to either the guest operating system or the virtual machine.

You can open an existing virtual machine from the Virtual Machine Library window or from the applications menu.

One way to open an existing virtual machine is to find and open its package file.

You can open an existing virtual machine from its package file.

You can start a powered-off guest operating system in your virtual machine.

Some configuration tasks require that the virtual machine be powered off. In the Virtual Machine Library you can access a virtual machine without powering it on.

You can shut down the guest operating system in your virtual machine.

The suspend and resume feature is useful to save the current state of a virtual machine and continue work later from the same state, even if you quit Fusion in the interim.

You can cancel a resume command while Fusion is restoring the virtual machine state.

In Fusion Pro, you can power on or restart a virtual machine to firmware.

Pausing a virtual machine stops the current state of a virtual machine. When you resume a paused virtual machine, the state of the virtual machine is exactly the same as when you paused it.

You can restart a virtual machine without restarting your Mac.

You can select a Fusion command to reset a virtual machine, much as you would press the reset button on a physical computer when it becomes unresponsive.

You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files.

You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files.

With VMware Fusion, when a Linux virtual machine has an SSH service enabled, you can configure quick SSH login to the virtual machine. The configuration enables SSH login from the Mac host to a Linux virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library. The virtual machine can be running on the Mac host or on a remote server running VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi, or VMware vCenter Server.

After you configure SSH login on a Linux virtual machine, you can change or delete the configuration.

You can use a Fusion command to send the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keystroke combination to a Windows virtual machine.

If your keyboard does not have the full range of keys that can be found on some keyboards, you can still send special key commands to the guest operating system.

You can use special key commands with a virtual machine.

With a keyboard shortcut, you can switch some of the Fusion power command options that appear in the Virtual Machine drop-down menu and the applications menus, from the default option.

You can configure your virtual machine to have soft or hard power options.