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.
Open an Existing Virtual Machine You can open an existing virtual machine from the Virtual Machine Library window or from the applications menu.
Browse for a Virtual Machine One way to open an existing virtual machine is to find and open its package file.
Open a Virtual Machine From the Finder You can open an existing virtual machine from its package file.
Start a Virtual Machine's Operating System You can start a powered-off guest operating system in your virtual machine.
Open a Virtual Machine Without Powering On 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.
Shut Down a Virtual Machine's Operating System You can shut down the guest operating system in your virtual machine.
Suspend and Resume a Virtual Machine in Fusion 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.
Cancel a Resume Command You can cancel a resume command while Fusion is restoring the virtual machine state.
Power on a Virtual Machine to Firmware in Fusion Pro In Fusion Pro , you can power on or restart a virtual machine to firmware.
Pause a Virtual Machine 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.
Restart a Virtual Machine You can restart a virtual machine without restarting your Mac.
Reset a Virtual Machine 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.
Uninstall a Virtual Machine by Using the Finder You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files.
Uninstall a Virtual Machine by Using the Virtual Machine Library You can uninstall a virtual machine by deleting its files.
Configure SSH Login on a Linux Virtual Machine 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.
Edit or Delete the SSH Login Configuration for a Linux Virtual Machine After you configure SSH login on a Linux virtual machine, you can change or delete the configuration.
Send the Ctrl-Alt-Delete Command to a Virtual Machine You can use a Fusion command to send the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keystroke combination to a Windows virtual machine.
Send Special Key Commands to a Windows or Linux 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.
Special Key Commands You can use special key commands with a virtual machine.
Switch Power Commands from the Default Options 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.
Options for Fusion Power Commands You can configure your virtual machine to have soft or hard power options.