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.
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| You can open an existing virtual machine from the Virtual Machine Library window or from the applications menu. |
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| One way to open an existing virtual machine is to find and open its package file. |
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| You can open an existing virtual machine from its package file. |
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| You can start a powered-off guest operating system in your virtual machine. |
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| 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. |
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| You can shut down the guest operating system in your virtual machine. |
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| 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. |
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| You can cancel a resume command while Fusion is restoring the virtual machine state. |
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| In Fusion Pro, you can power on or restart a virtual machine to firmware. |
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| 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. |
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| You can restart a virtual machine without restarting your Mac. |
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| 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. |
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| You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files. |
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| You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files. |
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| 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. |
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| After you configure SSH login on a Linux virtual machine, you can change or delete the configuration. |
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| You can use a Fusion command to send the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keystroke combination to a Windows virtual machine. |
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| 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. |
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| You can use special key commands with a virtual machine. |
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| 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. |
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| You can configure your virtual machine to have soft or hard power options. |