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Suspend

Use the Suspend function to suspend the virtual machine. This option is useful if you are running on a portable computer and wish to save power but do not want to power off the virtual machine. It is also useful if the guest operating system consumes resources while idling (for example, Windows 95 and 98, and Red Hat Linux 6.0). You should resume the virtual machine and perform an orderly shut down before powering off and exiting.

An operating system must support advanced power management (APM) to work well with suspend and resume (such as Windows 95 and 98, and Red Hat Linux 6.0). If you try to suspend a guest operating system that does not support APM, you will see a pop-up warning window. You can still choose to suspend the virtual machine. However, the guest operating system may not be able to resume correctly.

Warning: You should not power off the virtual machine or exit VMware while the virtual machine is suspended. If you do this you will lose all your work and possibly leave the guest operating system in a bad or unstable state.

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